Description
Animal Texts examines critical works of American Environmental Literature for how they portray, discuss, and represent animals. By interweaving animal studies, literary animal studies, animal science, and close readings, the author establishes critical animal concepts for environmental literature that expand the understanding and knowledge of animal lives to promote conservation and meaningful reflection on current human-animal relationships. Lauren E. Perry-Rummel demonstrates the grave importance and promise these writers saw in the animals alongside them by examining the textual proof of how America's great environmental writers viewed animals. The author's tracing of animal texts begins with late nineteenth century American texts from Sarah Orne Jewett, Jack London, into the mid-early twentieth century, ecologically focused works of Aldo Leopold and Rachel Carson, into the later twentieth century with the musings of Edward Abbey and the devastating memoir of Terry Tempest Williams, and ending with the contemporary species-centric works of Nate Blakeslee and Dan Flores.
Author: Lauren E. Perry-Rummel
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 10/03/2023
Pages: 168
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.92lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d
ISBN13: 9781666937763
ISBN10: 1666937762
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | American | General
- Literary Collections | American | General
- Nature | Animals | General