Animals, animality and controversy in modern Welsh literature and culture / Linden Peach.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Peach, Linden, 1951- author.

Series:

Writing Wales in English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Animals in literature.

English literature--Welsh authors--History and criticism.

English literature.

Welsh literature--History and criticism.

Welsh literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (184 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cardiff, England : University of Wales Press, [2022]

Summary:

Drawing on key concepts and ideas from animal studies, this is the first study of how Welsh literature explores relationships among animals and between humans and animals. Approaching Welsh writing from the perspective of a universe in which all living things are connected, it examines how Welsh authors depict subjects such as intelligence, sensibility and knowledge from an animal perspective.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Series Editors' Preface

Acknowledgements

Overview

1 Animals and Animality in a Relational Universe

2 Rethinking Animal Contexts: Rural and Industrial Wales

3 Emerging Animalities in the Victorian and Edwardian Welsh Press

4 Exotic Pets and Spectacular Entertainments

5 Brief Encounters

6 Birds over Wales

7 Domestication and 'Domesecration'

8 The Children's Book Pet

9 Conflicting Cosmologies: Three Stories by Gwyn Jones

10 Entangled Empathies: Gillian Clarke and Keith Bowen

Afterword

Notes

Select Bibliography.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781786839398