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Civilized Creatures: Urban Animals, Sentimental Culture, and American Literature, 1850--1900 (Animals, History, Culture)
Civilized Creatures Urban Animals Sentimental Culture and American Literature 18501900 - Animals, History, Culture
Author: Jennifer Mason
In Civilized Creatures, Jennifer Mason challenges some of our most enduring ideas about how encounters with nonhuman nature shaped American literature and culture. Mason argues that in the second half of the nineteenth century the most powerful influence on Americans' understanding of their affinities with animals was not increasing separation f...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780801880711
ISBN-10: 0801880718
Publication Date: 6/30/2005
Pages: 240
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Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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