Animal Texts: Critical Animal Concepts for American Environmental Literature (Ecocritical Theory and Practice) - Hardcover

Lauren Perry-Rummel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1666937762 ISBN 13: 9781666937763

Publisher: Lexington Books, 2023

Synopsis

Animal Texts examines critical works of American Environmental Literature for how they portray, discuss, and represent animals. By interweaving animal studies, literary animal studies, animal science, and close readings, the author establishes critical animal concepts for environmental literature that expand the understanding and knowledge of animal lives to promote conservation and meaningful reflection on current human-animal relationships. Lauren E. Perry-Rummel demonstrates the grave importance and promise these writers saw in the animals alongside them by examining the textual proof of how America's great environmental writers viewed animals. The author’s tracing of animal texts begins with late nineteenth century American texts from Sarah Orne Jewett, Jack London, into the mid-early twentieth century, ecologically focused works of Aldo Leopold and Rachel Carson, into the later twentieth century with the musings of Edward Abbey and the devastating memoir of Terry Tempest Williams, and ending with the contemporary species-centric works of Nate Blakeslee and Dan Flores.

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About the Author

Lauren E. Perry-Rummel teaches English literature at the University of Arizona and the University of New Mexico and is an instructional designer at the University of New Mexico.

Edition details

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1666937762
• ISBN 13: 9781666937763
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 180