{"product_id":"animals-in-the-american-classics-how-natural-history-inspired-great-fiction-hardcover","title":"Animals in the American Classics: How Natural History Inspired Great Fiction - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJohn Gruesser\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eSusan F. Beegel\u003c\/b\u003e (Contribution by), \u003cb\u003eJohn Bird\u003c\/b\u003e (Contribution by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs defined by conservation biologist Thomas Fleishner, natural history is \"a practice of intentional, focused receptivity to the more-than-human world . . . one of the oldest continuous human traditions.\" Seldom is this idea so clearly reflected as in classic works of American fiction of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn Cullen Gruesser's edited volume \u003ci\u003eAnimals in the American Classics: How Natural History Inspired Great Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e features essays by prominent literary scholars that showcase natural history and the multifaceted role of animals in well-known works of fiction, from Washington Irving in the early nineteenth century to Cormac McCarthy in the late twentieth century, and including short stories and novels by Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Zora Neale Hurston, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Jack London, John Steinbeck, and Harper Lee.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs an introduction to or a new way of thinking about some of the best-known and most beloved literary texts this nation has produced, \u003ci\u003eAnimals in the American Classics\u003c\/i\u003e considers fundamental questions of ethics and animal intelligence as well as similarities among racism, ageism, misogyny, and speciesism. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith their awareness of Poe's \"more-than-casual knowledge of natural science,\" Mark Twain's proto-animal rights sensibilities, and Hurston's training as an anthropologist, the contributors show that by drawing attention to and thinking like an animal, fiction tests the limits of humanity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJOHN CULLEN GRUESSER is senior research scholar of literary studies at Sam Houston State University. He is the author of numerous books, including \u003ci\u003eEdgar Allan Poe and His Nineteenth-Century American Counterparts \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eA Literary Life of Sutton E. Griggs The Man on the Firing Line, \u003c\/i\u003eand coeditor, of the Broadview Edition of Pauline E. Hopkins's novel \u003ci\u003eHagar's Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.02 x 9.37 x 6.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 11, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42158260748423,"sku":"9781648430206","price":41.04,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/e35733a4cd310e562078ee61578b397e.webp?v=1733257408","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/animals-in-the-american-classics-how-natural-history-inspired-great-fiction-hardcover","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}