What Animals Mean in the Fictions of Modernity

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Philip Armstrong, What Animals Mean in the Fictions of Modernity (New York, NY: Routledge, 2008)

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My vote for the most original and impeccably researched book in this area to date, Armstrong takes a longer historical view of modernism’s rise, in order to reveal the fitful development of nonhuman agency and its capacity to effect change through literature. With it, he offers a model for approaching animal forms that were once dismissed as incoherent or confusing by literary critics instead as asserting alternate social forms and capacities in human, animal, and human-animal relations - SUSAN McHUGH