{"id":1598,"date":"2020-08-10T13:22:29","date_gmt":"2020-08-10T13:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/?p=1598"},"modified":"2020-08-10T13:22:29","modified_gmt":"2020-08-10T13:22:29","slug":"palgrave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/palgrave\/","title":{"rendered":"The Palgrave Handbook of Animals and Literature is the latest publication by Susan McHugh, PhD, Professor of English."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Palgrave Handbook of Animals and Literature<\/em> is the latest publication by Susan McHugh, PhD, Professor of English. Co-edited with two colleagues at the University of Sheffield, UK, the book is designed to provide a comprehensive introduction to current research in literary animal studies, featuring 42 chapters whose authors include established leaders along with rising stars in the field: Currently in press, it has already received ringing endorsements from leading scholars around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maud Ellmann, PhD, Randy L. and Melvin R. Berlin Professor of the Development of the Novel in English at the University of Chicago, describes the book as \u201cAn invaluable guide to the theory and practice of literary animal studies,\u201d primarily because it \u201copens up new ways of reading by dismantling anthropocentric prejudices.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis volume is far more than a handbook on Literary Animal Studies,\u201d notes Virginia Richter, PhD, Professor and Chair of Modern English Literature at the University of Bern, Switzerland. \u201cRanging from Medieval beast fables to contemporary \u2018ossiferous\u2019 fictions, this collection is an inspiring must-read for everyone interested in literary animals, human and non-human alike.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cary Wolfe, PhD, Bruce and Elizabeth Dunlevie Professor of English at Rice University, elaborates that the book\u2019s wider-ranging appeals stem from the contributors\u2019 rigorous engagements with leading-edge academic discussions: \u201cthis remarkable\u2014and remarkably diverse\u2014collection models the rich diversity of how \u2018the question of the animal\u2019 has been taken up by leading figures in Animal Studies,\u201d concluding that \u201cany scholar, working in any period, will have much to learn here\u2014and much to applaud\u2014for years to come.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Concurring that it is\u201ca ‘must read’ for those in the fields of Animal Studies, Literary History and Criticism,\u201d Helen Tiffin, PhD, Professor of English at the University of Wollongong, Australia, points to its immediate relevance outside academics as well. The book\u2019s \u201cshifting focus, from the human to the extra-human, also takes us, as a number of the essays do, into the realms of imperialism, race, and gender. Innovative, comprehensive, and enlightening, it offers much not only to scholars, but to general readers interested in the urgent questions of our times.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shefali Rajamannar, PhD, Associate Professor of Writing at the University of Southern California, foresees the project\u2019s transformative impact on Literary Studies as well:  The editors have assembled an invaluable reference that includes a tantalizing array of approaches such as provocative zoocentric genealogies of humanism, insightful new readings of canonical authors, and essays about the current mass extinction crisis and multispecies approaches to medical humanities that pave the way to new directions in the discipline.\u201dMcHugh is the author of three scholarly monographs, most recently, Love in a Time of Slaughters: Human-animal Stories Against Genocide and Extinction <\/em>(2019). She is co-editor of three additional scholarly collections as well as the book series Palgrave Studies in Animals in Literature, <\/em>which has published over 20 volumes since its inception in 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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