How not to make a human : pets, feral children, worms, sky burial, oysters /

How Not to Make a Human seeks to provide a posthuman and ecocritical interrogation of human particularity via a wide range of medieval texts. Exploring such diverse topics as medieval pet-keeping, stories of feral and isolated children, interest in the edibility of the human body, sky burials, Chauc...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Steel, Karl (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2019]
Subjects:	Literature, Medieval > History and criticism. Human-animal relationships in literature. Animals in literature. Human beings in literature.

Table of Contents:

Pets
Isolated and feral children
Food for worms
Food for birds
Oysters.