Animal subjects: volume 1: literature, zoology, and british modernism
Auteur :
Hovanec, Caroline
Éditeur :
Cambridge University Press
ISBN :
9781108428392
Date de publication :
6 sept. 2018
Dimensions :
23,5 x 15,7 x 1,7 cm
Poids :
470 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
Animal Subjects identifies a new understanding of animals in modernist literature and science. Drawing on Darwin's evolutionary theory, British writers and scientists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries began to think of animals not as mere specimens, but as subjects, like us, with emotions, perceptions, and intentions.