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Book SynopsisIn each case, Mason demonstrates that understanding contemporary relationships between humans and animals is essential for understanding the debates about gender, race, and cultural power enacted in these texts.
Trade ReviewIntelligent, ambitious... Thoughtful and carefully written and should spur more work along the same lines. -- Nina Baym New England Quarterly 2006 Civilized Creatures is a thought-provoking contribution to our understanding of the nineteenth-century politics of affect. -- Glenn Hendler Journal of American History 2006
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction. Life in the Built Environment
Chapter 1. Animal Bodies: Corporeality, Class, and Equestrianism in Susan Warner's The Wide, Wide World
Chapter 2. Animal Transformations: Sagacious Dogs, Disgusting Apes, Evolutionary Theory, and Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Marble Fawn
Chapter 3. The Domestic Angel Animal: Nature, Nurture, and Difference in the Work of Harriet Beecher Stowe
Chapter 4. Animal Justice: Charles W. Chesnutt, Black Animality, and the Politics of Animal Welfare
Conclusion: Animal Politics, Affect, and American Studies
Notes
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