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University Park, PA: The Pennsylvannia University Press, 2012. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. Hardcover. 9 1/4" x 7 1/8". 231pp. Extremely mild shelf wear to dust jacket. Black cloth boards with bronze lettering to spine. Binding sound and contents clean and bright. Gorgeous Beasts takes a fresh look at the place of animals in history and art. Refusing the traditional subordination of animals to humans, the essays gathered here examine a rich variety of ways animals contribute to culture: as living things, as scientific specimens, as food, weapons, tropes, and occasions for thought and creativity. History and culture set the terms for this inquiry. As history changes, so do the ways animals participate in culture. Gorgeous Beasts offers a series of discontinuous but probing studies of the forms their participation takes. This collection presents the work of a wide range of scholars, critics, and thinkers from diverse disciplines: philosophy, literature, history, geography, economics, art history,…
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Gorgeous Beasts: Of Animals and Cultures Hardcover - 2012
by Joan B. Landes (Editor); Paula Young Lee (Editor); Paul Youngquist (Editor)
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- Title Gorgeous Beasts: Of Animals and Cultures
- Author Joan B. Landes (Editor); Paula Young Lee (Editor); Paul Youngquist (Editor)
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 258
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penn State University Press
- Date 2012
- Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780271054018 / 0271054018
- Weight 2.17 lbs (0.98 kg)
- Dimensions 9.29 x 7.22 x 0.92 in (23.60 x 18.34 x 2.34 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Human-animal relationships - History, Animals and history
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2012009331
- Dewey Decimal Code 590
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