

Writing About Animals in the Age of Revolution
Author: Jane Spencer
Narrator: Cat Gould
Unabridged: 13 hr 35 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 11/03/2020
Categories: Nonfiction, Literary Criticism, Nature, Animals
Synopsis
This book examines that relationship in chapters covering the abolition movement, early feminism, and the political reform movement. Donkeys, pigs, apes, and many other literary animals became central metaphors within political discourse, fought over in the struggle for rights and freedoms; while at the same time more and more writers became interested in exploring the experiences of animals themselves. We learn how children's writers pioneered narrative techniques for representing animal subjectivity, and how the anti-cruelty campaign of the early 1800s drew on the legacy of 1790s radicalism.