Overview: Examines the unique role of animals in Canadian history, literature, and culture.Studies the interactions between scientists, writers, and animal advocates.Takes a comprehensive, historical approach.Literature, Science, and Animal Advocacy in Canada: Practical Zoocriticism. is the first book-length study of animals in Canadian literature. Using a historical approach, it offers a much-needed alternative to existing models of animals as symbols of Canadian victimhood. Spanning more than a century, the scope of this book includes classic writers, Ernest Thompson Seton and Charles G. D.
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