Imperial beast fables : animals, cosmopolitanism, and the British Empire /

Imperial beast fables : animals, cosmopolitanism, and the British Empire / Kaori Nagai.

This book coins the term 'imperial beast fable to explore modern forms of human-animal relationships and their origins in the British Empire. Taking as a starting point the long nineteenth-century fascination with non-European beast fables, it examines literary reworkings of these fables, such...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Main Author: Nagai, Kaori (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2020]
Series:Palgrave studies in animals and literature.
Subjects:
Fables > History and criticism.
Animals in literature.
Human-animal relationships in literature.
Imperialism in literature.
Cosmopolitanism.
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Rats in the Box
  • Chapter 1: Winged Tales: The Advent of the Imperial Beast Fable
  • Chapter 2: 'Once Upon a Time When Animals Spoke: Theories of the Beast Fable
  • Chapter 3: Into the Chinese Boxes: The Jungle Books
  • Chapter 4: Kangaroo Notebook: Abes Metatherian Journey
  • Chapter 5: Animal Alphabets: Chestertons Dog, Brownings Rats, Lears Blue Baboon
  • Chapter 6: Fabling Cosmopolitanism: The Ark Esperanto.

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