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Glenn Willmott - Modern Animalism: Habitats of Scarcity and Wealth in Comics and Literature - 9781442643178 - V9781442643178
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Modern Animalism: Habitats of Scarcity and Wealth in Comics and Literature

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Description for Modern Animalism: Habitats of Scarcity and Wealth in Comics and Literature hardcover. Drawing on a wide range of scholarship, from environmental economics to psychology, Glenn Willmott examines modern and post-modern allegories of the environment, the animal, and economics, highlighting the enduring and seductive appeal of the modern primitive in an age when living with less remains a powerful cultural wish. Num Pages: 160 pages, 15. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 144 x 16. Weight in Grams: 336.

From T. S. Eliot’s Sweeney to C. S. Lewis’s Aslan, modern writing has been filled with strange new hybrid human-animal creatures. Feeding on consumer society, these ‘modern primitive’ figures often challenge mainstream ideals by discovering wealth in habitats and resources rather than in economic exchange. What compels our post-human identification with these characters?

Modern Animalism explores representations of the human-animal ‘problem creature’ in a broad assortment of literature and comics from the late nineteenth century to the present — including authors such as Woolf, Joyce, Lawrence, Moore, Murakami, Pullman, Coetzee, and Atwood, and comics creators such as McCay, Herriman, Miyazaki, ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9781442643178
SKU
V9781442643178
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99-1

About Glenn Willmott
Glenn Willmott is a professor in the Department of English at Queen's University.

Reviews for Modern Animalism: Habitats of Scarcity and Wealth in Comics and Literature
‘Glenn Wilmott’s Modern Animalism offers elegant new reading of the modern rea through an ecological lens… Wilmott has tapped into the discomfiting zeitgeist of our time and shaped discussion to which literary scholars can add their voices.’
Beverly Haun
Canadian Literature 219, winter 2013

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