Raymond Malewitz

Animal Illness and the Literary Imagination

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Produktbeschreibung

This book shows how major literary works from the eighteenthcentury to the present not only reflect but also shape the thoughts and anxieties of people struggling to navigate crises brought about by animal diseases and their accompanying containment strategies. These literary responses to animal illness remind us that audiences not only within but also far beyond veterinary, agricultural, and political spheres have (and have always had) a stake in these discussions. Like the virus that caused COVID-19, animal disease outbreaks have touched all our lives, and learning to recognize older manifestations of this contact in our language and our literatures enriches our understanding of who we are, how we have come to be, and how we want to proceed in our entangled, multi-species environments.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. November 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 596g
• ISBN-13: 9781009670173
• ISBN-10: 1009670174
• Artikelnr.: 74263852

Autorenporträt

Raymond Malewitz is Associate Professor of Literature at Oregon State University. He is the author The Practice of Misuse (Stanford, 2014) and has published in venues including Critical Inquiry, PMLA, and the Washington Post. In 2022, he served as Fulbright Distinguished Chair of American Studies at the University of Warsaw.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Literature and the early biopolitics of animal disease
2. Beyond biopolitics: interspecies intimacies and the great epizootic
3. Literary counter-histories of foot-and-mouth disease in North America
4. The early literature of COVID-19: anthropomorphism, zoomorphism, biopolitics
Conclusions.