Animal Presence and Human Identity in Modern Literature: (Dis)Figurations of Humanimality from Shakespeare to Desai

by Kimberly W Benston

Animal Presence and Human Identity in Modern Literature explores literary representations of the human-animal encounter in modernity that press human "being" to its limits. This project arises within the question, "Can an animal die?," formulated in response to Martin Heidegger's famous assertion that, properly speaking, animals cannot "die" but can only "perish," an assertion that sharply summarizes western "humanist" philosophical discourse -...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1785279602
• ISBN13: 9781785279607
• Release Date: August 2025
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Length: 250 Pages