{"product_id":"civilized-creatures-urban-animals-sentimental-culture-and-american-literature-18501900-9780801880711","title":"Civilized Creatures  Urban Animals Sentimental","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntelligent, 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction. Life in the Built Environment\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. Animal Bodies: Corporeality, Class, and Equestrianism in Susan Warner's \u003ci\u003eThe Wide, Wide World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2. Animal Transformations: Sagacious Dogs, Disgusting Apes, Evolutionary Theory, and Nathaniel Hawthorne's\u003ci\u003e The Marble Fawn\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3. The Domestic Angel Animal: Nature, Nurture, and Difference in the Work of Harriet Beecher Stowe\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4. Animal Justice: Charles W. Chesnutt, Black Animality, and the Politics of Animal Welfare\u003cbr\u003eConclusion: Animal Politics, Affect, and American Studies\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49527620731223,"sku":"9780801880711","price":53.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780801880711.jpg?v=1731868576","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/civilized-creatures-urban-animals-sentimental-culture-and-american-literature-18501900-9780801880711","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}