The emerging interdisciplinary field of animal studies seeks to shed light on the nature of animal experience and the moral status of animals in ways that overcome the limitations of …
Animal Cities builds upon a recent surge of interest about animals in the urban context. Considering animals in urban settings is now a firmly established area of study and this …
Examining culturally significant works of children's culture through a posthumanist, or animality studies lens, Animality and Children's Literature and Film argues that Western …
In The Ecology of Modernism, Joshua Schuster examines the relationships of key modernist writers, poets, and musicians to nature, industrial development, and pollution. He posits that …
'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 …
Addressing the significance of the pet in the Victorian period, this book examines the role played by the domestic pet in delineating relations for each member of the" natural" family …
Ecocriticism and film studies unite in this examination of five Italian films and the environmental questions they raise. Entangled in the hybrid fields of ecomedia studies and …
Early Christian theology posited a strict division between animals and humans. Nevertheless, animal figures abound in early Christian literature and art—from Augustine's …
S Kay - postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies, 2011 - Springer
This essay explores the impact on readers of the fact that medieval books are produced in a context involving the systematic exploitation of animals and written on parchment that is …