{"product_id":"writing-on-sheep-ecology-the-animal-turn-and-sheep-in-poetry-9781526156570","title":"Writing on Sheep: Ecology, the Animal Turn and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSheep are marginalised in literary criticism and in discussion of pastoral literature. This book brings an animal studies approach to poetry about sheep that allows for the agency of these sentient beings, that have been associated for humans over ten thousand years. This approach highlights the distinction between wild and domesticated species and the moral dilemma between the goals of animal welfare and those of saving species from extinction. Discussion of mostly contemporary poetry follows a new reading of works from the pastoral and georgic canon. Allowing for the sentience and sociality of this species makes it easier to imagine a natureculture within which to make kin across the species boundary. \u003ci\u003eReading poetry about sheep\u003c\/i\u003e has the power to make new meanings as we try to adapt to an increasingly complex and problematic environment.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of plates\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e1 The animal turn and ecocriticism\u003cbr\u003e2 Writing wildness: the Soay sheep of St Kilda\u003cbr\u003e3 Natureculture in pastoralism and the literary pastoral\u003cbr\u003e4 Culture and sheep in the English Lakeland\u003cbr\u003e5 ‘Green Desert’ or ‘Living Landscape’: sheep and people in the Welsh uplands\u003cbr\u003e6 Sheep and contested land use in Scotland\u003cbr\u003e7 Competing narratives on the farm and in poetry: Ted Hughes and Kay Syrad\u003cbr\u003e8 Colonial sheep\u003cbr\u003e9 Sheep and poetry in a heating world\u003cbr\u003eConclusion\u003cbr\u003eGlossary\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041021198679,"sku":"9781526156570","price":76.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/writing-on-sheep-ecology-the-animal-turn-and-sheep-in-poetry-9781526156570","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}