Thomas Hardy and Animals
by
Anna West
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
1107179173
ISBN-13
9781107179172
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 19th, 2017
Print length
218 Pages
Weight
450 grams
Dimensions
16.00 x 23.40 x 2.10 cms
Product Classification:
Literature: history & criticismClassic fiction (pre c 1945)Animals & society
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Adding to the critical dialogue on animals in literary criticism, Victorian studies and animal studies, this accessible work will also appeal to scholars of science and posthumanism. Bringing an important author within range of a new and developing area of critical inquiry, Anna West offers a new approach to Hardy criticism.
Thomas Hardy and Animals examines the human and nonhuman animals who walk and crawl and fly across and around the pages of Hardy''s novels. Animals abound in his writings, yet little scholarly attention has been paid to them so far. This book fills this gap in Hardy studies, bringing an important author within range of a new and developing area of critical inquiry. It considers the way Hardy''s representations of animals challenged ideas of human-animal boundaries debated by the Victorian scientific and philosophical communities. In moments of encounter between humans and animals, Hardy questions boundaries based on ideas of moral sense or moral agency, language and reason, the possession of a face, and the capacity to suffer and perceive pain. Through an emphasis on embodied encounters, his writings call for an extension of empathy to others, human or nonhuman. In this accessible book Anna West offers a new approach to Hardy criticism.
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