{"product_id":"performing-animals-history-agency-theater-animalibus-11-animalibus-of-animals-and-cultures-9780271078342","title":"Performing Animals History Agency Theater","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA collection of essays that explore the role of performing animals in literature, theater, art, and other media prior to the twentieth century, and discuss recent theoretical work in animal studies, materialism, and posthumanism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Ten terrific essays in animal studies from the perspective of performance.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Henry S. Turner \u003ci\u003eSEL: Studies in English Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This superb collection brings together leading scholars and historians to explore cutting-edge questions surrounding animal agency and performativity. Employing theoretical frameworks ranging from animal studies to the new materialisms, these essays demonstrate that the varied and various sites of animal performance are among the most fecund places from which to think about relations between humanity and animality.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Matthew Calarco,author of \u003ci\u003eThinking Through Animals: Identity, Difference, Indistinction\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKaren Raber and Monica Mattfeld\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 Animals at the Table: Performing Meat in Early Modern England and Europe Karen Raber\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2 Intra-Active Performativity: Rethinking the Early Modern Equestrian Portrait Pia F. Cuneo\t\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3 Past Performances: Gleanings from the Archives About Early Modern Equine Athletic Performance Richard Nash\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4 “I See Them Galloping!”: War, Affect, and Performing Horses in Matthew Lewis’s \u003ci\u003eTimour the Tartar\u003c\/i\u003e Monica Mattfeld\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5 Peaceable Kingdom: The Place of the Dog at the Nativity Scene Rob Wakeman\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\t\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6 Performing Pain: The Suffering Animal in Early Modern Experiment Sarah E. Parker\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7 \u003ci\u003eCircus Minimus\u003c\/i\u003e: The Early Modern Theater of Insects Jessica Wolfe\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8 Shakespeare’s Insect Theater: Fairy Lore as Elizabethan Folk Entomology Todd Andrew Borlik\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9 Miss Mazeppa and the Horse with No Name Kari Weil\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10 Horses Queer the Stage and Society of \u003ci\u003eShenandoah\u003c\/i\u003e Kim Marra\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Contributors\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pennsylvania State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400797364567,"sku":"9780271078342","price":68.81,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/performing-animals-history-agency-theater-animalibus-11-animalibus-of-animals-and-cultures-9780271078342","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}