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Civilized Creatures: Urban Animals, Sentimental Culture, and American Literature, 1850–1900
Jennifer Mason
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Description for Civilized Creatures: Urban Animals, Sentimental Culture, and American Literature, 1850–1900
Hardback. In each case, Mason demonstrates that understanding contemporary relationships between humans and animals is essential for understanding the debates about gender, race, and cultural power enacted in these texts. Series: Animals, History, Culture. Num Pages: 240 pages, 5, 5 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBF; DSK; JFFZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 454.
In Civilized Creatures, Jennifer Mason challenges some of our most enduring ideas about how encounters with nonhuman nature shaped American literature and culture. Mason argues that in the second half of the nineteenth century the most powerful influence on Americans' understanding of their affinities with animals was not increasing separation from the pastoral and the wilderness; instead, it was the population's feelings about the ostensibly civilized animals they encountered in their daily lives. Americans of diverse backgrounds, Mason shows, found it attractive as well as politic to imagine themselves as most closely connected to those creatures who shared ... Read more
In Civilized Creatures, Jennifer Mason challenges some of our most enduring ideas about how encounters with nonhuman nature shaped American literature and culture. Mason argues that in the second half of the nineteenth century the most powerful influence on Americans' understanding of their affinities with animals was not increasing separation from the pastoral and the wilderness; instead, it was the population's feelings about the ostensibly civilized animals they encountered in their daily lives. Americans of diverse backgrounds, Mason shows, found it attractive as well as politic to imagine themselves as most closely connected to those creatures who shared ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Series
Animals, History, Culture
Condition
New
Weight
449g
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801880711
SKU
V9780801880711
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About Jennifer Mason
Jennifer Mason has taught English at Southern Methodist University and Skidmore College.
Reviews for Civilized Creatures: Urban Animals, Sentimental Culture, and American Literature, 1850–1900
Intelligent, ambitious... Thoughtful and carefully written and should spur more work along the same lines.
Nina Baym New England Quarterly 2006 Civilized Creatures is a thought-provoking contribution to our understanding of the nineteenth-century politics of affect.
Glenn Hendler Journal of American History 2006
Nina Baym New England Quarterly 2006 Civilized Creatures is a thought-provoking contribution to our understanding of the nineteenth-century politics of affect.
Glenn Hendler Journal of American History 2006