Description:
This pioneering volume explores the critical interface between animal and animality studies, marking out the terrain in relation to twentieth-century literature and film.
Brief description: Michael Lundblad is Professor of American Literature in the Department of Literature, Area Studies, and European Languages at the University of Oslo. He is the author of The Birth of a Jungle: Animality in Progressive-Era U.S. Literature and Culture (Oxford University Press, 2013), and the co-editor, with Marianne DeKoven, of Species Matters: Humane Advocacy and Cultural Theory (Columbia University Press, 2012).
Review Quotes: [The] expansiveness is one of the collection's great strengths and testifies to the fact that animal studies, like ecocriticism, its close cousin, has moved far beyond the confines of Anglo-American thought.--Raymond Malewitz, Oregon State University "ALH Online Review, Series XV"