What can beast fables do in literary animal studies?: Ben Jonson’s Volpone and the Prehumanist Human

Erica Fudge

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-39773-9

What can beast fables do in literary animal studies? Ben Jonson’s Volpone and the Prehumanist Human

Erica Fudge

English

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This essay explores the role that beast fables might have in literary animal studies, using early modern ideas to argue that, however conventional, fables have an important role to play in continuing historical and contemporary explorations of literary representations

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Palgrave Handbook of Literary Animal Studies
Editors	Susan McHugh, Robert McKay, John Miller
Place of Publication	Cham, Switzerland
Chapter	Part III, chapter 4
Pages	195-207
Number of pages	13
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39773-9
Publication status	Published - 26 Nov 2020

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animal studies
literary studies
early modern studies

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