Memorializing Animals during the Romantic Period

Chase Pielak

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English

Routledge
12 December 2019

Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 ; Ethics & moral philosophy; Society & culture: general; Sociology: death & dying; Medical sociology

Early nineteenth-century British literature is overpopulated with images of dead and deadly animals, as Chase Pielak observes in his study of animal encounters in the works of Charles and Mary Lamb, John Clare, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron, and William Wordsworth. These encounters, Pielak suggests, coincide with anxieties over living alongside both animals and cemeteries in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth-centuries. Pielak traces the linguistic, physical, and psychological interruptions occasioned by animal encounters from the heart of communal life, the table, to the countryside, and finally into and beyond the wild cemetery. He argues that Romantic period writers use language that ultimately betrays itself in beastly disruptions exposing anxiety over what it means to be human, what happens at death, the consequences of living together, and the significance of being remembered. Extending his discussion past an emphasis on animal rights to an examination of animals in their social context, Pielak shows that these animal representations are both inherently important and a foreshadowing of the ways we continue to need images of dead and deadly Romantic beasts.

By: Chase Pielak
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9780367880316
ISBN 10: 0367880318
Pages: 178
Publication Date: 12 December 2019
Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Primary , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Chase Pielak is Assistant Professor of English at Ashford University, USA. He has published on nineteenth-century literature, animal studies, and posthuman criticism.

Reviews for Memorializing Animals during the Romantic Period

In Memorializing Animals, Pielak shows how animals have a place in the study of Romantic literature; their otherness provides the Romantics and us opportunities to rethink community and hospitality. - Ronald Broglio, Arizona State University The bookis an excellent read for anyone with interests in nineteenth Century British poetry or a desire to learn about animal memorialism. - George E. Dickinson, College of Charleston