What Animals Mean in the Fiction of Modernity

Philip Armstrong examines the function of animals and animal representations in four classic narratives: Robinson Crusoe, Gulliver's Travels, Frankenstein and Moby-Dick and explores how these stories have been re-worked, in ways that reflect shifting social and environmental forces, by later novelists.

Author: Philip Armstrong
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 02/01/2008
Pages: 264
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.73lbs
Size: 8.49h x 5.55w x 0.57d
ISBN: 9780415358392

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2008 pg. 264

About the Author

Philip Armstrong teaches at the University of Canterbury, Aotearoa, where he is Co-Director of the New Zealand Centre for Human-Animal Studies.