Civilized Creatures: Urban Animals, Sentimental Culture, and American Literature, 1850-1900
(Part of the Animals, History, Culture Series)
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In Civilized Creatures , Jennifer Mason challenges some of our most enduring ideas about how encounters with nonhuman nature shaped American literature and culture. Mason argues that in the second half of the nineteenth century the most powerful influence on Americans' understanding of their affinities with animals was not increasing separation from the pastoral and the wilderness; instead, it was the population's feelings about the ostensibly civilized...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0801880718
ISBN13:9780801880711
Release Date:August 2005
Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press
Length:240 Pages
Weight:0.99 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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