This book addresses the question of animal rights in the context of literary criticism. Working from a committed position it asks what literary studies would look like if animal rights were taken seriously. It offers critical surveys of the main themes in the history of animal rights and some of the more important contemporary positions together with readings of a wide range of literary texts from classical antiquity through to the present day.
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John Simons is head of the School of Humanities and Arts, Edge Hill College of Higher Education, Ormskirk.
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It was Mark Twain who advised us to distrust any enterprise that required new clothes. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
satirical trope, strong anthropomorphism, animal theology, case for animal rights, moral patients, animals issue, animal liberation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Literary Representation, Paradise Lost, Carol Adams, Modest Proposal, Bashevis Singer, Gulliver's Travels, Old Brown Dog, Peter Singer, The Wind, Greyfriar's Bobby, Juliet Gellatley, Miss Lackett, Roger Scruton, Some Contemporary Thought, United Kingdom, Vulgar Errors, Tom Regan, Black Beauty, Charles Cotton, Sir Philip Sidney New!
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It was Mark Twain who advised us to distrust any enterprise that required new clothes. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
satirical trope, strong anthropomorphism, animal theology, case for animal rights, moral patients, animals issue, animal liberation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Literary Representation, Paradise Lost, Carol Adams, Modest Proposal, Bashevis Singer, Gulliver's Travels, Old Brown Dog, Peter Singer, The Wind, Greyfriar's Bobby, Juliet Gellatley, Miss Lackett, Roger Scruton, Some Contemporary Thought, United Kingdom, Vulgar Errors, Tom Regan, Black Beauty, Charles Cotton, Sir Philip Sidney New!
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- Great Apes (Will Self) by Will Self on 6 pages
- Animal Theology by Andrew Linzey on 4 pages
- The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame on 4 pages
- The Faerie Queene (Penguin Classics) by Edmund Spenser on 4 pages
- When Elephants Weep by Jeffrey Masson on 4 pages
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- Killing Animals by The Animal Studies Group on page 70, and page 96
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