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This lively collection, the first of its kind, maps out and analyses the diverse representation of plants in children¿s and YA literatures internationally, from the perspective of the rapidly expanding field of cultural plant studies.

The emphasis of the inquiry in Reconfiguring Human, Nonhuman and Posthuman in Literature and Culture is on the various ways actual and fictional nonhumans are reconfigured in contemporary culture.

Shakespeare's Things: Shakespearean Theatre and the Non-Human World in History, Theory, and Performance invites new critical attention to non-human agents and influences, while aiming to revolutionize the interpretations of the uncanny, the supernatural, and the fantastic in Shakespeare's plays.

Animals and Their Children in Victorian Culture is a collection of original essays that explore the representation of animals in children's literature. It focuses on the influence of animals to "civilize" children (and not the animals) in moral ethics and proper Victorian behavior, especially regarding human treatment of animals.

The landscape of Turkey, with its trees and animals inspires narratives of survival, struggle and escape.

This work studies three twenty-first century novels by Richard Powers, Dave Eggers and Don DeLillo as representative of a new trend of US fiction concerned with the topic of the technological augmentation of the human condition. The different chapters provide, from the double perspective of the optimistic transhumanist philosophy and the more balanced approach of critical posthumanism, an overview of the narrative strategies used by the writers to explore the possibilities that biotechnology, digital technologies and cryonics open up to transcend our human limitations, while also warning their readers of their most nefarious consequences. Ultimately, the book puts forward the claim that even if the writers approach the subject from a variety of perspectives and using different narrative styles and techniques, they all share a critical posthumanist fear that an unrestrained and unquestioned use of technology for enhancement purposes may bring about disembodiment and dehumanization.

This book is to free the humanities from their anthropocentric frame and explore how they might instead deepen our understanding of animals¿ lives and points of view. By decentering human concerns and foregrounding animals¿ perceptual and cognitive worlds, it urges us to "unlearn" no more and no less than our species¿ arrogance.

To make sense of the material afterlives of animals, this book draws together multispecies perspectives from literary criticism and theory, cultural studies, anthropology and ethnography, photographic and film history, and contemporary art practice to offer the first synoptic account of animal remains.

This book is to free the humanities from their anthropocentric frame and explore how they might instead deepen our understanding of animals¿ lives and points of view. By decentering human concerns and foregrounding animals¿ perceptual and cognitive worlds, it urges us to "unlearn" no more and no less than our species¿ arrogance.

This volume explores the ethos of digital environments, asking how we can orient ourselves in them and inviting us to renewed moral reflection in the face of dilemmas they entail.

This collection explores the different ways in which the posthuman has been addressed in key narratives written in the second decade of the 21st century. From a critical posthumanist perspective the scholars in this collection analyse the aesthetic choices these authors make to depict the posthuman and its aftereffects.

The emphasis of the inquiry in Reconfiguring Human, Nonhuman and Posthuman in Literature and Culture is on the various ways actual and fictional nonhumans are reconfigured in contemporary culture.

Victorians and Their Animals: Beast on a Leash, investigates the notion that British Victorians did see themselves as naturally dominant species over other humans and over animals. They conscientiously, hegemonically were determined to rule those beneath them and the animal within themselves albeit with varying degrees of success and failure.

The landscape of Turkey, with its trees and animals inspires narratives of survival, struggle and escape.

This book explores the status and representation of animals in literature from the Middle Ages to the present day. Essays examine various figurative, agential, imaginative, ethical, and affective aspects of literary encounters with animality, demonstrating the value of a literary animals.

This book explores how 17th-century writing intersected with changing understandings of the conceptual structure of matter, and how humans might reconfigure their place in a network of non-human relations. Snider recovers the material and body worlds of 17th-century culture as treated in poetry, natural philosophy, medical treatises, and prose fiction. Drawing on science studies and new materialism, the book considers writers including Milton, Cavendish, Robert Herrick, and Robert Boyle. Mining the interplay of human and non-human worlds, it will appeal to literary scholars, cultural historians, philosophers, and those studying ecocriticism or the history of the body.