Building on two decades of scholarship, this collection presents a wide array of current scholarly projects on the intersection of Romanticism and animal studies, renewing the call for more exploration of how the figure of the animal pervades Romantic texts during the age of revolutions.
Building on two decades of scholarship, this collection presents a wide array of current scholarly projects on the intersection of Romanticism and animal studies, renewing the call for more exploration of how the figure of the animal pervades Romantic texts during the age of revolutions.
MICHAEL DEMSON is a professor of English at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas. CHRISTOPHER R. CLASON is a professor emeritus at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan.
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Introduction Michael Demson and Christopher R. Clason Part One: The Pervasion of Animal Figures Chapter 1: Animals in Abolition Alastair Hunt Chapter 2: Imperial Animals and Aboriginal People: Collecting the South Pacific in Mary Ann Parker’s A Voyage Round the World Pamela Buck Chapter 3: The Politics of the Pig from Burke to Beckett John Gardner Part Two: The Eccentricity of Animal Figures Chapter 4: Familiarity and Flights of Imagination: Romantic Birds Jane Spencer Chapter 5: The Poodle’s Perspective in E.T.A. Hoffmann’s Lebensansichten des Katers Murr Christopher R. Clason Chapter 6: Weird Creatures: Romantic-era Zoophytes, The Great Chain of Being, and Posthumanist Life Allison Dushane Part Three: The Exhibition of Human-Animal Entanglements Chapter 7: The Monkey Artist and His Donkey Public: French Art-World Caricature, the Animal Menagerie, and the Digital Humanities Kathryn Desplanque Chapter 8: Horse Paintings: Problems of Communication and Politics in French Romantic Painting Peter Erickson Chapter 9: The Beasts of Romantic Melodrama Frederick Burwick Acknowledgments Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index Introduction 1 Michael Demson and Christopher R. Clason PA R T O N E : The Pervasion of Animal Figures 1 Animals in Abolition 19 Alastair Hunt 2 Imperial Animals and Aboriginal People: Collecting the South Pacific in Mary Ann Parker’s A Voyage Round the World 38 Pamela Buck 3 The Politics of the Pig from Burke to Beckett 53 John Gardner PA R T TWO : The Eccentricity of Animal Figures 4 Familiarity and Flights of Imagination: Romantic Birds 73 Jane Spencer 5 The Poodle’s Perspective in E.T.A. Hoffmann’s Lebensansichten des Katers Murr 91 Christopher R. Clason 6 Weird Creatures: Romantic-Era Zoophytes, the Great Chain of Being, and Posthumanist Life 112 Allison Dushane PA R T T H R E E : The Exhibition of Human-Animal Entanglements 7 The Monkey Artist and His Donkey Public: French Art-World Caricature, the Animal Menagerie, and the Digital Humanities 133 Kathryn Desplanque 8 Horse Paintings: Problems of Communication and Politics in French Romantic Painting 161 Peter Erickson 9 The Beasts of Romantic Melodrama 181 Frederick Burwick Acknowledgments 201 Bibliography 203 Notes on Contributors 221 Index 000
Introduction Michael Demson and Christopher R. Clason Part One: The Pervasion of Animal Figures Chapter 1: Animals in Abolition Alastair Hunt Chapter 2: Imperial Animals and Aboriginal People: Collecting the South Pacific in Mary Ann Parker’s A Voyage Round the World Pamela Buck Chapter 3: The Politics of the Pig from Burke to Beckett John Gardner Part Two: The Eccentricity of Animal Figures Chapter 4: Familiarity and Flights of Imagination: Romantic Birds Jane Spencer Chapter 5: The Poodle’s Perspective in E.T.A. Hoffmann’s Lebensansichten des Katers Murr Christopher R. Clason Chapter 6: Weird Creatures: Romantic-era Zoophytes, The Great Chain of Being, and Posthumanist Life Allison Dushane Part Three: The Exhibition of Human-Animal Entanglements Chapter 7: The Monkey Artist and His Donkey Public: French Art-World Caricature, the Animal Menagerie, and the Digital Humanities Kathryn Desplanque Chapter 8: Horse Paintings: Problems of Communication and Politics in French Romantic Painting Peter Erickson Chapter 9: The Beasts of Romantic Melodrama Frederick Burwick Acknowledgments Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index Introduction 1 Michael Demson and Christopher R. Clason PA R T O N E : The Pervasion of Animal Figures 1 Animals in Abolition 19 Alastair Hunt 2 Imperial Animals and Aboriginal People: Collecting the South Pacific in Mary Ann Parker’s A Voyage Round the World 38 Pamela Buck 3 The Politics of the Pig from Burke to Beckett 53 John Gardner PA R T TWO : The Eccentricity of Animal Figures 4 Familiarity and Flights of Imagination: Romantic Birds 73 Jane Spencer 5 The Poodle’s Perspective in E.T.A. Hoffmann’s Lebensansichten des Katers Murr 91 Christopher R. Clason 6 Weird Creatures: Romantic-Era Zoophytes, the Great Chain of Being, and Posthumanist Life 112 Allison Dushane PA R T T H R E E : The Exhibition of Human-Animal Entanglements 7 The Monkey Artist and His Donkey Public: French Art-World Caricature, the Animal Menagerie, and the Digital Humanities 133 Kathryn Desplanque 8 Horse Paintings: Problems of Communication and Politics in French Romantic Painting 161 Peter Erickson 9 The Beasts of Romantic Melodrama 181 Frederick Burwick Acknowledgments 201 Bibliography 203 Notes on Contributors 221 Index 000
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