Animals in the American classics : how natural history inspired great fiction /
As defined by conservation biologist Thomas Fleishner, natural history is "a practice of intentional, focused receptivity to the more-than-human world, one of the oldest continuous human traditions." Seldom is this idea so clearly reflected as in classic works of American fiction of the ni...
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| Language: | English |
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College Station :
Texas A&M University Press,
[2022].
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Integrative natural history series.
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword, by William I. Lutterschmidt
- Animal Analogues and the Character of American Wildlife in Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" /William E. Engel
- "At the same time more and less than a man": The Ourang-Outang in Edgar Allan Poe's "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" / Philip Edward Phillips
- Insects, Metamorphosis, and Poe's "The Gold-Bug" / Susan Elizabeth Sweeney
- Whales, Mother Carey's Chickens, and a Heart-Stricken Moose in Herman Melville's MobyDick / Brian Yothers
- Mark Twain's "Jumping Frog": Cartoon Fantasy and Grim Reality in the Animal Kingdom / John Bird
- Learning to Think like an Animal: Pragmatism in Jack London's The Call of the Wild / Anthony Reynolds
- A "Background Never Stated": Mice, Snakes, Dogs, and Rabbits in John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men / Barbara A. Heavilin
- High Water and the Limits of Humanity in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God / Cherene Sherrard-Johnson
- Faulkner's Animals: Testing the Limits of the Human /
- Deborah Clarke
- A Natural History of the Blue Marlin in Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea / Susan F. Beegel
- Mad Dogs and Maycomb: Harper Lee's Guide to an Ambiguous South in To Kill a Mockingbird / Robert Donahoo
- Gatelamps to Another World: Seeing the Animal in Cormac McCarthy / Stacey Peebles
- Contributors.