Pet Projects: Animal Fiction and Taxidermy in the Nineteenth-Century Archive 9780271084947

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Автор: Young Elizabeth (Элизабет Янг)
Название: Pet Projects: Animal Fiction and Taxidermy in the Nineteenth-Century Archive
ISBN: 9780271084947
Издательство: NBN International
Классификация:

Дневники, письма и журналы

Литература: история и критика

Литературоведение: с 1800 до 1900 г.

Животные и общество

ISBN-10: 0271084944
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Страницы: 280
Вес: 0.73 кг.
Дата издания: 15.12.2019
Серия: Animalibus
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 3 halftones, color; 32 halftones, black and white
Размер: 229 x 178 x 26
Читательская аудитория: Professional & vocational
Подзаголовок: Animal fiction and taxidermy in the nineteenth-century archive
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Поставляется из: Англии
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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 Youngs own experience of a beloved animals illness, this study highlights the personal and intellectual stakes of a pet project of cultural criticism.

Young assembles a broad archive of materials, beginning with Saunderss novels and widening outward to include fiction, nonfiction, photography, and taxidermy. She coins the term first-dog voice to describe the narrative technique of novels, such as Saunderss Beautiful Joe, written in the first person from the perspective of an animal. She connects this voice to contemporary political issues, revealing how animal fiction such as Saunderss reanimates nineteenth-century writing about both feminism and slavery. Highlighting the prominence of taxidermy in the late nineteenth century, she suggests that Saunders transforms taxidermic techniques in surprising ways that provide new forms of authority for women. Young adapts Freud to analyze literary representations of mourning by and for animals, and she examines how Canadian writers, including Saunders, use animals to explore race, ethnicity, and national identity. Her wide-ranging investigation incorporates twenty-first as well as nineteenth-century works of literature and culture, including recent art using taxidermy and contemporary film. Throughout, she reflects on the tools she uses to craft her analyses, examining the state of scholarly fields from feminist criticism to animal studies.

With a lively, first-person voice that highlights experiences usually concealed in academic studies by scholarly discourse--such as detours, zigzags, road blocks, and personal experience--this unique and innovative book will delight animal enthusiasts and academics in the fields of animal studies, gender studies, American studies, and Canadian studies.

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