Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-246) and index.
Contents:
Oysters. Isolated and feral children -- Food for worms -- Food for birds -- Oysters.
Summary:
"How Not to Make a Human seeks to provide a posthuman and ecocritical interrogation of human particularity via a wide range of medieval texts. Exploring such diverse topics as medieval pet-keeping, stories of feral and isolated children, interest in the edibility of the human body, sky burials, Chaucer, and oysters, from a variety of disanthropic perspectives, Steel furnishes contemporary posthumanists with underutilized cultural models in which humans play a humbler part than they have tended to in the last several centuries"-- Provided by publisher.
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