Reading Literary Animals ― Medieval to Modern

Reading Literary Animals takes a broad chronological sweep, from medieval times to present day, to explore the literary status and the representation of animals in literature, Editors, Jane Spencer, Derek Ryan and Karen Edwards have assembled some of the field’s leading scholars to demonstrate how reading animals in literature provokes new ways of thinking that break down the old silos and gives answers to some of the most fundamental questions being asked in classrooms today surrounding the presence and absence of animals in canonical works since the Medieval period.

Jane Spencer is Professor of English at the University of Exeter

Derek Ryan is Lecturer in Modernist Literature at the University of Kent

Karen Edwards is Associate Professor in English at the University of Exeter