Animal fables after Darwin : literature, speciesism, and metaphor /

The ancient form of the animal fable, in which the characteristics of humans and animals are playfully and educationally intertwined, took on a wholly new meaning after Darwin's theory of evolution changed forever the relationship between humans and animals. In this original study, Chris Danta...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Danta, Chris (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [2018]
Subjects:	Darwin, Charles, > 1809-1882 > Influence. Animals in literature. Fables > History and criticism. Human-animal relationships in literature. Literature, Modern > 19th century > History and criticism. Literature, Modern > 20th century > History and criticism. LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.

Table of Contents:

Prologue: uplifting animals; 1. Looking up, looking down: orientations of the human; 2. The grotesque mouth; 3. 'The highest civilisation among ants': Stevenson and the fable; 4. 'An animal among the animals': Wells and the thought of the future; 5. Animal bachelors and animal brides: Kafka, Carter, Garnett; 6. Scapegoats and scapegraces: becoming sacrificial animal in Kafka and Coetzee; Coda: 'Diogenes of the zoo.'