Thomas Hardy and Animals

Thomas Hardy and Animals
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 221
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ISBN-10 : 9781316834312
ISBN-13 : 131683431X
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Book Synopsis Thomas Hardy and Animals by : Anna West

Download or read book Thomas Hardy and Animals written by Anna West and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-19 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Hardy and Animals examines the human and nonhuman animals who walk and crawl and fly across and around the pages of Hardy's novels. Animals abound in his writings, yet little scholarly attention has been paid to them so far. This book fills this gap in Hardy studies, bringing an important author within range of a new and developing area of critical inquiry. It considers the way Hardy's representations of animals challenged ideas of human-animal boundaries debated by the Victorian scientific and philosophical communities. In moments of encounter between humans and animals, Hardy questions boundaries based on ideas of moral sense or moral agency, language and reason, the possession of a face, and the capacity to suffer and perceive pain. Through an emphasis on embodied encounters, his writings call for an extension of empathy to others, human or nonhuman. In this accessible book Anna West offers a new approach to Hardy criticism.


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