Pet Projects: Animal Fiction and Taxidermy in the Nineteenth-Century Archive

by Elizabeth Young

In Pet Projects, Elizabeth Young joins an analysis of the representation of animals in nineteenth-century fiction, taxidermy, and the visual arts with a first-person reflection on her own scholarly journey. Centering on Margaret Marshall Saunders, a Canadian woman writer once famous for her animal novels, and incorporating Young's own experience of a beloved animal's illness, this study highlights the personal and intellectual stakes of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271084944
• ISBN13: 9780271084947
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.3" x 9.3"