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05297aam a2200601 i 4500 001 17CFD4A8253111EE91433F782CECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230718010455 008 211028t20222022txuab b 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2021052700 020 $a 1648430201 020 $a 9781648430206 035 $a (OCoLC)1286070418 040 $a TXA/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d GZD $d OCLCF $d YDX $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a PS169.A54 $b A56 2022 082 00 $a 810.9/362 $2 23/eng/20211117 245 00 $a Animals in the American classics : $b how natural history inspired great fiction / $c edited by John Cullen Gruesser ; foreword by William I. Lutterschmidt. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a College Station : $b Texas A&M University Press, $c [2022] 300 $a xii, 298 pages : $b color illustrations, color map ; $c 24 cm 490 1 $a Integrative natural history series 520 $a "As defined by conservation biologist Thomas Fleishner, natural history is "a practice of intentional, focused receptivity to the more-than-human world . . . one of the oldest continuous human traditions." Seldom is this idea so clearly reflected as in classic works of American fiction of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. John Cullen Gruesser's edited volume Animals in the American Classics: How Natural History Inspired Great Fiction features essays by prominent literary scholars that showcase natural history and the multifaceted role of animals in well-known works of fiction from Washington Irving in the early nineteenth century to Cormac McCarthy in the late twentieth century, including short stories and novels by Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Zora Neale Hurston, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Jack London, John Steinbeck, and Harper Lee. As an introduction to or a new way of thinking about some of the best-known and most beloved literary texts this nation has produced, Animals in the American Classics considers fundamental questions of ethics and animal intelligence, as well as similarities among racism, ageism, misogyny, and speciesism. With their awareness of Poe's "more-than-casual knowledge of natural science," Mark Twain's proto-animal rights sensibilities, and Hurston's training as an anthropologist, the contributors show that by drawing attention to and thinking like an animal, fiction tests the limits of humanity"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 00 $g Foreword / $r Stacey Peebles. $t Gatelamps to Another World: Seeing the Animal in Cormac McCarthy / $r William E. Engel -- $t "At the same time more and less than a man": The Ourang-Outang in Edgar Allan Poe's "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" / $r Philip Edward Phillips -- $t Insects, Metamorphosis, and Poe's "The Gold-Bug" / $r Susan Elizabeth Sweeney -- $t Whales, Mother Carey's Chickens, and a Heart-Stricken Moose in Herman Melville's MobyDick / $r Brian Yothers -- $t Mark Twain's "Jumping Frog": Cartoon Fantasy and Grim Reality in the Animal Kingdom / $r John Bird -- $t Learning to Think like an Animal: Pragmatism in Jack London's The Call of the Wild / $r Anthony Reynolds -- $t A "Background Never Stated": Mice, Snakes, Dogs, and Rabbits in John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men / $r Barbara A. Heavilin -- $t High Water and the Limits of Humanity in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God / $r Cherene Sherrard-Johnson -- $t Faulkner's Animals: Testing the Limits of the Human / $r -- $t Deborah Clarke -- $t A Natural History of the Blue Marlin in Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea / $r Susan F. Beegel -- $t Mad Dogs and Maycomb: Harper Lee's Guide to an Ambiguous South in To Kill a Mockingbird / $r Robert Donahoo -- $t Gatelamps to Another World: Seeing the Animal in Cormac McCarthy / $r Stacey Peebles. 650 0 $a American literature $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Animals in literature. 650 0 $a Natural history in literature. 650 0 $a Humanity in literature. 650 7 $a American literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00807113 650 7 $a Animals in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00809580 650 7 $a Humanity in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00963662 650 7 $a Natural history in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01034337 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 700 1 $a Gruesser, John Cullen, $d 1959- $e editor. 700 1 $a Lutterschmidt, William I., $e writer of foreword. 700 1 $a Beegel, Susan F., $d 1954- $e contributor. 700 1 $a Bird, John, $d 1954- $e contributor. 700 1 $a Clarke, Deborah, $d 1956- $e contributor. 700 1 $a Donahoo, Robert, $e contributor. 700 1 $a Engel, William E., $d 1957- $e contributor. 700 1 $a Heavilin, Barbara A., $d 1945- $e contributor. 700 1 $a Peebles, Stacey L. $q (Stacey Lyn), $d 1976- $e contributor. 700 1 $a Phillips, Philip Edward, $e contributor. 700 1 $a Reynolds, Anthony, $e contributor. 700 1 $a Sherrard-Johnson, Cherene, $d 1973- $e contributor. 700 1 $a Sweeney, Susan Elizabeth, $d 1958- $e contributor. 700 1 $a Yothers, Brian, $d 1975- $e contributor. 830 0 $a Integrative natural history series. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117013054.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=17CFD4A8253111EE91433F782CECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search