Literary Theory: The Basics Page 1 Page 2 This accessible guide provides the ideal first step
in understanding literary theory. Hans Bertens: • leads you through the major approaches to …

Animal Bodies, Renaissance Culture examines how the shared embodied existence of early
modern human and nonhuman animals challenged the establishment of species …

The discovery of a rare fly in a North London cemetery marks my entry point into a wider
reflection on the value and significance of urban biodiversity. Using different indices of …

Veterinary surgeons (vets) provide us with a fascinating platform to study anthropocentric
and zoocentric beliefs, which we argue are gendered in both their genesis and practice …

Transforming education is crucial to generate a society able to deal with the complex
socioenvironmental challenges of the Anthropocene. In the current context of unacceptable …

In this study of the relationship between men and their horses in seventeenth-and
eighteenth-century England, Monica Mattfeld explores the experience of horsemanship and …

This book explores how humans in the Renaissance lived with, attended to, and considered
the minds, feelings, and sociality of other creatures. It examines how Renaissance literature …

In “The Strange Orchid,” one of his late-century stories, HG Wells portrays the relationship
between an orchid fancier and his newly acquired specimen. With dystopic finesse, Wells …

That sexism and speciesism on occasion operate in concert has been well documented in
animal studies, in ecofeminism and in green criminology. This article shows that for much of …

This article analyses the democratic impulse of animal representations in Thomas Hardy's
early novel The Return of the Native. I build on recent ecocritical scholarship that imagines …