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animal fiction
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animal turn
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Anthropocene
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biodiversity loss
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collaboration
creative non-fiction
ecocriticism
ecofeminism
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ethics
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ethology
extinction studies
feminism
fiction
forthcoming
genetics
human vs. nonhuman animal
human-animal studies
humanities
indigenous voices
intersectionality
kinship
literary animal studies
literature
mimesis
multispecies world
nature writing
neurodivergence
neuroscience
phallocentric master narrative
philosophy
poetic imagination
poetry
political studies
postcolonial literature
posthumanism
psychology
rewilding
science
sentience
settler colonialism
shifting baseline syndrome
sixth extinction
social sciences
sociology
species transfer
speculative fiction
subject vs. object
sympathy
taxonomy
tentacular thinking
theory
wild vs. domesticated
Product details
- ISBN 9781807072285
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 20 Oct 2026
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Beginning literary animal studies is an introduction to the rapidly developing field of human-animal studies in the humanities with particular emphasis on literature. The book introduces the foundations of this subject in science, theory and ethics, and its development in the close study of the relationship that humans have with other animal species. Human-animal studies are advancing across a very broad front, the book unpicks the various strands in this approach and demonstrates how they may be applied in practical examples of literary criticism of creative non-fiction, fiction and poetry. Growing interest in the part played by animals in our culture and of our culture’s impact on animals, has inspired contemporary writers. It has also led critics in the humanities to new interpretations of both contemporary and canonical works. This book introduces the whole field of literary animal studies in a way that enables students to choose how they will approach this important field of study.
William Welstead is an independent scholar where he lives on the Isle of Tiree where he follows his interests as an independent scholar in the interplay between culture, low intensity agriculture and biodiversity.
