Romanticism and Animal Rights (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521829410)

Demonstrating how English Romantic writing took up issues of what we now call animal rights, this study joins the growing number of studies that seek precedents or affinities in English Romanticism for ecological concerns. An unprecedented amount of writing advocated kindness to animals in England during the second half of the eighteenth century. This theme was carried through many genres, from sermons to encyclopedias, scientific works to literature for children, and to the poetry of Cowper, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Clare and others.

Author: David Perkins
ISBN-10: 0521829410
ISBN-13: 9780521829410
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 10/23/2003
Pages: 212
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.06lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.26w x 0.68d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 05/01/2004 pg. 1666