The Aesthetics of Care: On the Literary Treatment of Animals

by Josephine Donovan

Book Overview

In this important new book from a distinguished scholar, Josephine Donovan develops a new aesthetics of care, which she establishes as the basis for a critical approach to the representation of animals in literature.

The Aesthetics of Care begins with a guide to the relationship between ethics and aesthetics, leading to a reconceptualization of key literary critical terms such as mimesis and catharsis, before moving...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501317202
• ISBN13: 9781501317200
• Release Date: June 2016
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.4"