TY - GEN N2 - This volume is the first comprehensive guide to current research on animals, animality, and human-animal relations in literature. To reflect the history of literary animal studies to date, its primary focus is literary prose and poetry in English, while also accommodating emergent discussions of the full range of media and contexts with which literary studies engages, especially film and critical theory. User-friendly language, references, even suggestions for further readings are included to help newcomers to the field understand how it has taken shape primarily through recent decades. To further aid teachers, sections are organized by conventions of periodization, and chapters address a range of canonical and popular texts. Bookended by sections devoted to the field's conceptual foundations and new directions, the volume is designed to set an agenda for literary animal studies for decades to come. DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-39773-9 DO - doi AB - This volume is the first comprehensive guide to current research on animals, animality, and human-animal relations in literature. To reflect the history of literary animal studies to date, its primary focus is literary prose and poetry in English, while also accommodating emergent discussions of the full range of media and contexts with which literary studies engages, especially film and critical theory. User-friendly language, references, even suggestions for further readings are included to help newcomers to the field understand how it has taken shape primarily through recent decades. To further aid teachers, sections are organized by conventions of periodization, and chapters address a range of canonical and popular texts. Bookended by sections devoted to the field's conceptual foundations and new directions, the volume is designed to set an agenda for literary animal studies for decades to come. T1 - The Palgrave handbook of animals and literature / AU - McHugh, Susan AU - McKay, Robert AU - Miller, John, CN - PR438.A55 ID - 1432699 KW - English literature KW - Animals in literature. KW - Animals in motion pictures. KW - Littérature anglaise KW - Animaux dans la littérature. KW - Animaux au cinéma. SN - 9783030397739 SN - 3030397734 TI - The Palgrave handbook of animals and literature / LK - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-030-39773-9 UR - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-030-39773-9 ER -