{"product_id":"what-animals-mean-in-the-philip-armstrong-9780415358392","title":"What Animals Mean in the Fiction of Modernity","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhat Animals Mean in the Fiction of Modernity\u003c\/em\u003e argues that nonhuman animals, and stories about them, have always been closely bound up with the conceptual and material work of modernity. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn the first half of the book, Philip Armstrong examines the function of animals and animal representations in four classic narratives: \u003cem\u003eRobinson Crusoe\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eGulliver's Travels\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eFrankenstein\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eMoby-Dick\u003c\/em\u003e. He then goes on to explore how these stories have been re-worked, in ways that reflect shifting social and environmental forces, by later novelists, including H.G. Wells, Upton Sinclair, D.H. Lawrence, Ernest Hemingway, Franz Kafka, Brigid Brophy, Bernard Malamud, Timothy Findley, Will Self, Margaret Atwood, Yann Martel and J.M. Coetzee.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhat Animals Mean in the Fiction of Modernity\u003c\/em\u003e also introduces readers to new developments in the study of human-animal relations. It does so by attending both to the significance of animals to humans, and to animals' own purposes or designs; to what animals mean to us, and to what they mean to do, and how they mean to live. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Philip Armstrong\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0415358396\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780415358392\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/01\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.73lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.49h x 5.55w x 0.57d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2008 pg. 264","brand":"Philip Armstrong","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44583712358655,"sku":"9780415358392","price":46.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_afd6390b-33a4-4cc1-b8f6-de72a3e57d33.jpg?v=1701883142","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/what-animals-mean-in-the-philip-armstrong-9780415358392","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}