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Literary bioethics : animality, disability, and the human / Maren Tova Linett.
LIBRA PR888.B53 L56 2020
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Linett, Maren Tova, author.
- Series:
- Crip (Series)
- Crip : new directions in disability studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- Bioethics in literature.
- People with disabilities in literature.
- Human body and technology in literature.
- American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- 213 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York University Press, [2020]
- Summary:
- "'Literary Bioethics' explores the connections between 'animality, ' disability, and the human"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction: reading fiction, valuing different kinds of lives
- Beast lives: Wells's The island of Doctor Moreau
- Old lives: Huxley's Brave new world
- Disabled lives: O'Connor's The violent bear it away
- Cloned lives: Ishiguro's Never let me go
- Epilogue: revaluing lives.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the J. Bertram Lippincott Library Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781479801251
- 9781479801268
- 1479801267
- 1479801259
- OCLC:
- 1126549522
- Publisher Number:
- 99984968759
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