Memorializing Animals during the Romantic Period

by Chase Pielak

Book Overview

Early nineteenth-century British literature is overpopulated with images of dead and deadly animals, as Chase Pielak observes in his study of animal encounters in the works of Charles and Mary Lamb, John Clare, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron, and William Wordsworth. These encounters, Pielak suggests, coincide with anxieties over living alongside both animals and cemeteries in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth-centuries. Pielak traces the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367880318
• ISBN13: 9780367880316
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"