Other Animals in Twenty-First Century Fiction

by Catherine Parry

Book Overview

This book is about ordinary animals and how they are imagined in twenty-first century fiction. Examining contemporary animal representations and the fraught and potent distinctions humans fashion between themselves and all other animals, it asks how a range of novels make, re-make or un-make traditional conceptions of the creatures we love, admire, eat, vilify and abuse. Other Animals' detailed readings of horses, an animalised human, a...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319559311
• ISBN13: 9783319559315
• Release Date: July 2017
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 245 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"