Civilized Creatures: Urban Animals, Sentimental Culture, and American Literature, 1850-1900

by Jennifer Mason

In Civilized Creatures , Jennifer Mason challenges some of our most enduring ideas about how encounters with nonhuman nature shaped American literature and culture. Mason argues that in the second half of the nineteenth century the most powerful influence on Americans' understanding of their affinities with animals was not increasing separation from the pastoral and the wilderness; instead, it was the population's feelings about the ostensibly civilized...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801880718
• ISBN13: 9780801880711
• Release Date: August 2005
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher