Raymond Malewitz

Animal Illness and the Literary Imagination

A Cultural History of Animal Disease Management

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Produktbeschreibung

Written for literary and animal studies scholars, this book shows how animal illnesses influence our cultures and our economies, our language and our politics; enabling us to investigate in narrative form the relationships between public health and veterinary health and between animal suffering and the suffering of humans.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 2025
• Englisch
• 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.