Animals in the American Classics: How Natural History Inspired Great Fiction Gruesser John
Animals in the American Classics: How Natural History Inspired Great Fiction Gruesser John As defined by conservation biologist Thomas Fleishner, natural history is "a practice of intentional,…
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Animals in the American Classics: How Natural History Inspired Great Fiction Gruesser John
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, and 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
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