Philip Armstrong

Gebundenes Buch

What Animals Mean in the Fiction of Modernity

Beschreibung

Philip Armstrong examines the function of animals and animal representations in four classic narratives: Robinson Crusoe, Gulliver's Travels, Frankenstein and Moby-Dick and explores how these stories have been re-worked, in ways that reflect shifting social and environmental forces, by later novelists.

Autor

Philip Armstrong teaches at the University of Canterbury, Aotearoa, where he is Co-Director of the New Zealand Centre for Human-Animal Studies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Januar 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 470g
• ISBN-13: 9780415358385
• ISBN-10: 0415358388
• Artikelnr.: 22824271

Rezensionen

"Remarkable depth and breadth in its engagement with critical discussions of animals in modern fiction".

- Susan McHugh in Society & Animals 17.4 (2009): 363-7

"An essential book for anyone involved in Animal Studies and everyone concerned with animals in literature".

- Marion Copeland in Humanimalia 1.1 (September 2009)

"A magisterial reading of Moby-Dick appears in What Animals Mean in the Fiction of Modernity alongside compelling studies of Gulliver's Travels, Robinson Crusoe, Frankenstein, a host of twentieth-century novels, and critical analyses of Wells and Lawrence ...".

- Robert McKay in The Minnesota Review issue 73-4 (2010)

"Remarkable depth and breadth in its engagement with critical discussions of animals in modern fiction".

- Susan McHugh in Society & Animals 17.4 (2009): 363-7

"An essential book for anyone involved in Animal Studies and everyone concerned with animals in literature".

- Marion Copeland in Humanimalia 1.1 (September 2009)

"A magisterial reading of Moby-Dick appears in What Animals Mean in the Fiction of Modernity alongside compelling studies of Gulliver's Travels, Robinson Crusoe, Frankenstein, a host of twentieth-century novels, and critical analyses of Wells and Lawrence ...".

- Robert McKay in The Minnesota Review issue 73-4 (2010)