Empire And The Animal Body

Author : John Miller
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780857285492

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Empire and the Animal Body by John Miller Pdf

‘Empire and the Animal Body: Violence, Identity and Ecology in Victorian Adventure Fiction’ develops recent work in animal studies, eco-criticism and postcolonial studies to reassess the significance of exotic animals in Victorian adventure literature. Depictions of violence against animals were integral to the ideology of adventure literature in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. However, the evolutionary hierarchies on which such texts relied were complicated by developing environmental sensitivities and reimaginings of human selfhood in relation to animal others. As these texts hankered after increasingly imperilled areas of wilderness, the border between human and animal appeared tense, ambivalent and problematic.

Author : John Miller
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781783083176

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Empire and the Animal Body by John Miller Pdf

‘Empire and the Animal Body: Violence, Identity and Ecology in Victorian Adventure Fiction’ develops recent work in animal studies, eco-criticism and postcolonial studies to reassess the significance of exotic animals in Victorian adventure literature. Depictions of violence against animals were integral to the ideology of adventure literature in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. However, the evolutionary hierarchies on which such texts relied were complicated by developing environmental sensitivities and reimaginings of human selfhood in relation to animal others. As these texts hankered after increasingly imperilled areas of wilderness, the border between human and animal appeared tense, ambivalent and problematic.

Author : Jonathan Saha
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108839402

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Colonizing Animals by Jonathan Saha Pdf

A pathbreaking history of British imperialism in Myanmar from the early nineteenth century to 1942 populated by animals.

Author : Jaimie Baron,Kristen Fuhs
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000539325

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Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness by Jaimie Baron,Kristen Fuhs Pdf

The third volume in the Docalogue series, this book explores the significance of the documentary series Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness (2020), which became 'must-see-TV' for a newly captive audience during the global Covid-19 pandemic. The series – a true-crime, tabloid spectacle about a murder-for-hire plot within the big cat trade – prompts interesting questions about which documentaries become popular in particular moments and why. However, it also raises important questions related to the medium specificity of documentary in the streaming era, as well as the ethics of both human and animal representation. By combining five distinct perspectives on the Netflix documentary series, this book offers a complex and cumulative discourse about Tiger King’s significance in multiple areas including, but not limited to, animal studies, queer theory, genre studies, labor relations, and digital culture. Students and scholars of film, media, television, and cultural studies will find this book extremely valuable in understanding the significance of this larger-than-life true-crime documentary series.

Author : Kathleen Kete
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Animals and civilization
ISBN : 1350049522

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A Cultural History of Animals in the Age of Empire by Kathleen Kete Pdf

Explores the sacred and the symbolic (totem, sacrifice, status and popular beliefs); hunting; domestication (taming, breeding, labour and companionship); entertainment and exhibitions (the menagerie, zoos, circuses and carnivals); science and specimens (research, education, collections and museums); philosophical beliefs; and artistic representations.

Author : Ziba Rashidian
Publisher : Springer
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137428653

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Representing the Modern Animal in Culture by Ziba Rashidian Pdf

Examining a wide range of works, from Gulliver's Travels to The Hunger Games, Representing the Modern Animal in Culture employs key theoretical apparatuses of Animal Studies to literary texts. Contributors address the multifarious modes of animal representation and the range of human-animal interactions that have emerged in the past 300 years.

Author : Dominik Ohrem,Roman Bartosch
Publisher : Springer
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349934379

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Beyond the Human-Animal Divide by Dominik Ohrem,Roman Bartosch Pdf

This volume explores the potential of the concept of the creaturely for thinking and writing beyond the idea of a clear-cut human-animal divide, presenting innovative perspectives and narratives for an age which increasingly confronts us with the profound ecological, ethical and political challenges of a multispecies world. The text explores written work such as Samuel Beckett’s Worstward Ho and Michel Foucault's The Order of Things, video media such as the film "Creature Comforts" and the video game Into the Dead, and photography. With chapters written by an international group of philosophers, literary and cultural studies scholars, historians and others, the volume brings together established experts and forward-thinking early career scholars to provide an interdisciplinary engagement with ways of thinking and writing the creaturely to establish a postanthropocentric sense of human-animal relationality.

Author : Ruth Heholt,Melissa Edmundson
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783030345402

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Gothic Animals by Ruth Heholt,Melissa Edmundson Pdf

This book begins with the assumption that the presence of non-human creatures causes an always-already uncanny rift in human assumptions about reality. Exploring the dark side of animal nature and the ‘otherness’ of animals as viewed by humans, and employing cutting-edge theory on non-human animals, eco-criticism, literary and cultural theory, this book takes the Gothic genre into new territory. After the dissemination of Darwin’s theories of evolution, nineteenth-century fiction quickly picked up on the idea of the ‘animal within’. Here, the fear explored was of an unruly, defiant, degenerate and entirely amoral animality lying (mostly) dormant within all of us. However, non-humans and humans have other sorts of encounters, too, and even before Darwin, humans have often had an uneasy relationship with animals, which, as Donna Haraway puts it, have a way of ‘looking back’ at us. In this book, the focus is not on the ‘animal within’ but rather on the animal ‘with-out’: other and entirely incomprehensible.

Author : Antónia Szabari
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2024-03-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781531506698

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Agents without Empire by Antónia Szabari Pdf

It is well known that Renaissance culture gave an empowering role to the individual and thereby to agency. But how does race factor into this culture of empowerment? Canonical French authors like Rabelais and Montaigne have been celebrated for their flexible worldviews and interest in the difference of non-French cultures both inside and outside of Europe. As a result, this period in French cultural history has come to be valued as an exceptional era of cultural opening toward others. Agents without Empire shows that such a celebration is, at the very least, problematic. Szabari argues that before the rise of the French colonial empire, medieval categories of race based on the redemption story were recast through accounts of the Ottoman Empire that were made accessible, in a sudden and unprecedented manner, to agents of the French crown. Spying performed by Frenchmen in the Ottoman Empire in the sixteenth century permeated French culture in large part because those who spied also worked as knowledge producers, propagandists, and artists. The practice changed what it meant to be cultured and elite by creating new avenues of race- and gender-specific consumption for French and European men that affected all areas of sophisticated culture including literature, politics, prints, dressing, personal hygiene, and leisure. Agents without Empire explores race making in this period of European history in the context of diplomatic reposts, travel accounts, natural history, propaganda, religious literature, poetry, theater, fiction, and cheap print. It intervenes in conversations in whiteness studies, race theory, theories of agency and matter, and the history of diplomacy and spying to offer a new account of race making in early modern Europe.

Author : Laurence W. Mazzeno,Ronald D. Morrison
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317002024

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Victorian Writers and the Environment by Laurence W. Mazzeno,Ronald D. Morrison Pdf

Applying ecocritical theory to the work of Victorian writers, this collection explores what a diversity of ecocritical approaches can offer students and scholars of Victorian literature, at the same time that it critiques the general effectiveness of ecocritical theory. Interdisciplinary in their approach, the essays take up questions related to the nonhuman, botany, landscape, evolutionary science, and religion. The contributors cast a wide net in terms of genre, analyzing novels, poetry, periodical works, botanical literature, life-writing, and essays. Focusing on a wide range of canonical and noncanonical writers, including Charles Dickens, the Brontes, John Ruskin, Christina Rossetti, Jane Webb Loudon, Anna Sewell, and Richard Jefferies, Victorian Writers and the Environment demonstrates the ways in which nineteenth-century authors engaged not only with humans’ interaction with the environment during the Victorian period, but also how some authors anticipated more recent attitudes toward the environment.

Author : Pratik Chakrabarti
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137374806

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Medicine and Empire by Pratik Chakrabarti Pdf

The history of modern medicine is inseparable from the history of imperialism. Medicine and Empire provides an introduction to this shared history – spanning three centuries and covering British, French and Spanish imperial histories in Africa, Asia and America. Exploring the major developments in European medicine from the seventeenth century to the mid-twentieth century, Pratik Chakrabarti shows that the major developments in European medicine had a colonial counterpart and were closely intertwined with European activities overseas: - The increasing influence of natural history on medicine - The growth of European drug markets - The rise of surgeons in status - Ideas of race and racism - Advancements in sanitation and public health - The expansion of the modern quarantine system - The emergence of Germ theory and global vaccination campaigns Drawing on recent scholarship and primary texts, this book narrates a mutually constitutive history in which medicine was both a 'tool' and a product of imperialism, and provides an original, accessible insight into the deep historical roots of the problems that plague global health today.

Author : Anthony J. Nocella,Colin Salter,Judy K.C. Bentley
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780739186527

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Animals and War by Anthony J. Nocella,Colin Salter,Judy K.C. Bentley Pdf

Animals and War: Confronting the Military-Animal Industrial Complex is the first book to examine how nonhuman animals are used for war by military forces. Each chapter delves deeply into modes of nonhuman animal exploitation: as weapons, test subjects, and transportation, and as casualties of war leading to homelessness, starvation, and death. With leading scholar-activists writing each chapter, this is an important text in the fields of peace studies and critical animal studies. This is a must read for anyone interested in ending war and fostering peace and justice.

Author : Kathryn Renton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009089852

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Feral Empire by Kathryn Renton Pdf

By tracing the dramatic spread of horses throughout the Americas, Feral Empire explores how horses shaped society and politics during the first century of Spanish conquest and colonization. It defines a culture of the horse in medieval and early modern Spain which, when introduced to the New World, left its imprint in colonial hierarchies and power structures. Horse populations, growing rapidly through intentional and uncontrolled breeding, served as engines of both social exclusion and mobility across the Iberian World. This growth undermined colonial ideals of domestication, purity, and breed in Spain's expanding empire. Drawing on extensive research across Latin America and Spain, Kathryn Renton offers an intimate look at animals and their role in the formation of empires. Iberian colonialism in the Americas cannot be explained without understanding human-equine relationships and the centrality of colonialism to human-equine relationships in the early modern world. This title is part of the Flip it Open Program and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.

Author : Ruth Hawthorn,John Miller
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783031092411

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Animals in Detective Fiction by Ruth Hawthorn,John Miller Pdf

This book explores the vast array of animals that populate detective fiction. If the genre begins, as is widely supposed, with Edgar Allan Poe’s “Murders in the Rue Morgue” (1841), then detective fiction’s very first culprit is an animal. Animals, moreover, consistently appear as victims, clues, and companions, while the abstract conception of animality is closely tied to the idea of criminality. Although it is often described as an essentially conservative form, detective fiction can unsettle the binary of human and animal to intersect with developing concerns in animal studies: animal agency, the ethical complexities of human/animal interaction, the politics and literary aesthetics of violence, and animal metaphor. Gathering its 14 essays into sections on ontologies, ethics, politics, and forms, Animals in Detective Fiction provides a compelling and nuanced analysis of the central role creatures play in this enduringly popular and continually morphing literary form.

Author : James Wharton McLaughlin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:24503330750

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Fermentation, infection and immunity by James Wharton McLaughlin Pdf