Romantic Beasts
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A Voyage Round the World
abolition
Aboriginal
Abraham Trembley
Aesthetic Theory
Animal perspectives
Animal poetry
Animal rights
animal studies
Animal symbolism
animality
Ann Radcliffe
Apes
Art world satire
beasts
British Empire
caricature
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creature
Digital Humanities
Dogs
donkeys
Dorothy Wordsworth
E.T.A. Hoffmann
Eclecticism
Edmund Burke
Elephant
Emancipation
environmental humanities
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Erasmus Darwin
Eugene Delacroix
Faust
French Art-World
French Caricature
French Romanticism
German literary animals
German Romanticism
Goethe
Gothic paintings
Great Chain of Being
Gulliver's Travels
horses
Human-animal relations
Imperialism
Importexport of animals
Industrialism
James Cook
Jeremy Bentham
La Belle Sauvage
Lebensansichten des Katers Murr
literary animals
Mary Ann Parker
melodrama
menagerie
Mephistopheles
monkeys
Monsters
Natural history
Nature
Nineteenth Century art
PETA
pig
poodles
Posthumanist
Romantic art
Romantic birds
Romantic literature
Romantic paintings
Romanticism
Samuel Beckett
Samuel Coleridge
swine
The Floating Kingdom or The Last Voyage of Captain Cook
The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr
The sublime
The Swallow
Theodore Gericault
To a Skylark
Waiting for Godot
Working class
Zoophytes
Product details
- ISBN 9781684485574
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 156 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 31 Aug 2025
- Publisher: Bucknell University Press,U.S.
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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By staging human-animal encounters, Romantic literature and art repeatedly questioned how "human" animals could be and how "animal" humans in fact are. Romantic-era authors and artists often depicted perplexing animal intrusions upon humans. Sometimes the intruders were mystifying or terrifying, like Coleridge’s albatross or Poe’s raven; sometimes they were mundane, as in “The Swallow” by Smith or “To a Mouse” by Burns-regardless, encounters with animal-others occasioned Romantic musings. This collection builds on existing scholarship while deploying new methodological approaches from gender studies, posthumanism, postcolonialism, disability studies, and digital studies to deepen our understanding of why animal-human encounters were so prevalent in the creative work and cultural discourse of the Romantic period, including the rhetoric of social movements like transatlantic abolitionism. Taken together, the chapters demonstrate the range and complexity of Romantic representations of human-animal interactions and conceptualizations of animality, nonhuman life, and not-wholly-human life.
Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
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.
CHRISTOPHER R. CLASON is a professor emeritus at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan.
