Animals, Animality and Controversy in Modern Welsh Literature and Culture

Linden Peach

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University of Wales Press
28 February 2023

Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Philosophy; Animals & society

Series: Writing Wales in English

This pioneering study introduces readers to key themes from animal studies, as a frame within which it examines the representation of animals and animality in the work of a range of authors. In this new approach to animal studies, the concept of a relational universe that has emerged in recent natural and physical science is argued as being central. With fresh readings of Welsh literary and non-literary publications, including the Welsh press and Welsh-language manuals, the book explores relationships among animals and between humans and animals, to approach subjects such as intelligence, sensibility and knowledge from an animal perspective. The possibility of redrawing and reclaiming a history of rural and industrial Wales is suggested according to an animal history and agenda. This innovative contribution to Welsh and animal studies illuminates fascinating and controversial subjects, including animal domestication, captivity, communication, biopsychology, human exceptionalism, zoos and farming.

By: Linden Peach
Imprint: University of Wales Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm,
ISBN: 9781786839374
ISBN 10: 1786839377
Series: Writing Wales in English
Pages: 264
Publication Date: 28 February 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: No Longer Our Product

Series Editors' Preface Acknowledgements Overview 1 Animals and Animality in a Relational Universe 2 Rethinking Animal Contexts: Rural and Industrial Wales 3 Emerging Animalities in the Victorian and Edwardian Welsh Press 4 Exotic Pets and Spectacular Entertainments 5 Brief Encounters 6 Birds Over Wales 7 Domestication and 'Domesecration' 8 Children's Book Pets 9 Conflicting Cosmologies: Three Stories by Gwyn Jones 10 Entangled Empathies: Gillian Clarke and Keith Bowen Afterword Notes Select Bibliography Index

The main target audience is undergraduate and postgraduate students, university academics and teachers. The book should also appeal to senior secondary school students, teachers and the general reader.

Reviews for Animals, Animality and Controversy in Modern Welsh Literature and Culture

""'The pig is a friend' wrote the great Welsh poet R. S. Thomas, and Linden Peach's richly knowledgeable and engagingly written book offers the ideal introduction to the many, deep and deeply ambivalent relationships with animals that populate Welsh literature. Drawing on key themes in animal studies, and connecting deft analysis of specific portrayals of animals to cultural and ecological knowledges about them, the book reveals for the first time that the most innovative contemporary ideas about humans' relations with animals are profoundly expressed in Welsh literary traditions. This is a most exciting and important addition to literary animal studies.""-- ""Robert McKay, co-editor of Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature"" ""An alert and wide-ranging contribution to our understanding of the 'entangled empathies', complex dependencies and multiple environments (natural, agricultural, industrial and domestic) of human-animal relations in Wales's imaginative writing. Peach's study is eloquent in its respect for animal subjectivities and humbling in its rebuke of human exceptionalism.""-- ""Damian Walford Davies, Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Professor of English Literature, Cardiff University""