Perspectives on the Non-Human in Literature and Culture
About the Book Series
In recent years, many disciplines within the humanities have become increasingly concerned with non-human actors and entities. The environment, animals, machines, objects, weather, and other non-human beings and things have taken center stage to challenge assumptions about what we have traditionally called "the human." Informed by theoretical approaches like posthumanism, the new materialisms, (including Actor Network Theory, Object-Oriented Ontology, and similar approaches) ecocriticism, and critical animal studies, such scholarship has until now had no separate and identifiable collective home at an academic press. This series will provide that home, publishing work that shares a concern with the non-human in literary and cultural studies. The series invites single-authored books and essay collections that focus primarily on literary texts, but from an interdisciplinary, theoretically-informed perspective; it will include work that crosses geographical and period boundaries. Titles are characterized by dynamic interventions into established subjects and innovative studies on emerging topics.
Plants in Children’s and Young Adult Literature
1st Edition
Edited
By Melanie Duckworth, Lykke Guanio-Uluru
May 31, 2023
From the forests of the tales of the Brothers Grimm to Enid Blyton’s The Faraway Tree, from the flowers of Cicely May Barker’s fairies to the treehouse in Andy Griffith and Terry Denton’s popular 13-Storey Treehouse series, trees and other plants have been enduring features of stories for children ...
The Ethos of Digital Environments: Technology, Literary Theory and Philosophy
1st Edition
Edited
By Susanna Lindberg, Hanna-Riikka Roine
May 31, 2023
While self-driving cars and autonomous weapon systems have received a great deal of attention in media and research, the general requirements of ethical life in today’s digitalizing reality have not been made sufficiently visible and evaluable. This collection of articles from both distinguished ...
Transhumanism and Posthumanism in Twenty-First Century Narrative
1st Edition
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By Sonia Baelo-Allué, Mónica Calvo-Pascual
January 09, 2023
Transhumanism and Posthumanism in Twenty-First Century Narrative brings together fifteen scholars from five different countries to explore the different ways in which the posthuman has been addressed in contemporary culture and more specifically in key narratives, written in the second decade of ...
The Insectile and the Deconstruction of the Non/Human
1st Edition
By Fabienne Collignon
December 30, 2022
The Insectile and the Deconstruction of the Non/Human defines, conceptualizes, and evaluates the insectile—pertaining to an entomological fascination—in relation to subject formation. The book is driven by a central dynamic between form and formlessness, further staging an investigation of the ...
Outside the Anthropological Machine: Crossing the Human-Animal Divide and Other Exit Strategies
1st Edition
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By Chiara Mengozzi
February 01, 2022
In the midst of the climate crisis and the threat of the sixth extinction, we can no longer claim to be the masters of nature. Rather, we need to unlearn our species’ arrogance for the sake of all animals, human and non-human. Rethinking our being-in-the-world as Homo sapiens, this monograph argues...
Animals and Their Children in Victorian Culture
1st Edition
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By Brenda Ayres, Sarah Elizabeth Maier
December 13, 2021
Whether a secularized morality, biblical worldview, or unstated set of mores, the Victorian period can and always will be distinguished from those before and after for its pervasive sense of the "proper way" of thinking, speaking, doing, and acting. Animals in literature taught Victorian children ...
Ghost, Android, Animal: Trauma and Literature Beyond the Human
1st Edition
By Tony M. Vinci
December 13, 2021
Ghost, Android, Animal challenges the notion that trauma literature functions as a healing agent for victims of severe pain and loss by bringing trauma studies into the orbit of posthumanist thought. Investigating how literary representations of ghosts, androids, and animals engage traumatic ...
Reconfiguring Human, Nonhuman and Posthuman in Literature and Culture
1st Edition
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By Sanna Karkulehto, Aino-Kaisa Koistinen, Essi Varis
December 13, 2021
The time has come for human cultures to seriously think, to severely conceptualize, and to earnestly fabulate about all the nonhuman critters we share our world with, and to consider how to strive for more ethical cohabitation. Reconfiguring Human, Nonhuman and Posthuman in Literature and ...
Shakespeare’s Things: Shakespearean Theatre and the Non-Human World in History, Theory, and Performance
1st Edition
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By Brett Gamboa, Lawrence Switzky
December 13, 2021
Floating daggers, enchanted handkerchiefs, supernatural storms, and moving statues have tantalized Shakespeare’s readers and audiences for centuries. The essays in Shakespeare’s Things: Shakespearean Theatre and the Non-Human World in History, Theory, and Performance renew attention to non-human ...
Writing the Land, Writing Humanity: The Maya Literary Renaissance
1st Edition
By Charles M. Pigott
December 13, 2021
The Maya Literary Renaissance is a growing yet little-known literary phenomenon that can redefine our understanding of "literature" universally. By analyzing eight representative texts of this new and vibrant literary movement, the book argues that the texts present literature as a trans-species ...
Animals, Plants, and Landscapes: An Ecology of Turkish Literature and Film
1st Edition
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By Hande Gurses, Irmak Ertuna Howison
June 30, 2021
The landscape of Turkey, with its trees and animals inspires narratives of survival, struggle and escape. Animals, Plants, and Landscapes: An Ecology of Turkish Literature and Film, will be the first major study to offer fresh theoretical insight into this landscape, by offering a collection of ...
Bestial Oblivion: War, Humanism, and Ecology in Early Modern England
1st Edition
By Benjamin Bertram
September 30, 2020
Although war is a heterogeneous assemblage of the human and nonhuman, it nevertheless builds the illusion of human autonomy and singularity. Focusing on war and ecology, a neglected topic in early modern ecocriticism, Bestial Oblivion: War, Humanism, and Ecology in Early Modern England shows how ...