TY  - BOOK
AU  - Willmott,Glenn
TI  - Modern Animalism: Habitats of Scarcity and Wealth in Comics and Literature 
SN  - 9781442643178
AV  - PN56.P7 W54 2012eb
U1  - 809/.911 23
PY  - 2011///]
CY  - Toronto : 
PB  - University of Toronto Press, 
KW  - Ecology in literature
KW  - Economics in literature
KW  - Primitivism in literature
KW  - Scarcity
KW  - DISCOUNT-B
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; Chapter One. Modern Habitats --; Chapter Two. Problem Creatures --; Chapter Three. Surviving History --; Chapter Four. Growing Wonder --; Conclusion --; Notes --; Works Cited --; Index; restricted access
N2  - From T. S. Eliot’s Sweeney to C. S. Lewis’s Aslan, modern writing has been filled with strange new hybrid human-animal creatures. Feeding on consumer society, these ‘modern primitive’ figures often challenge mainstream ideals by discovering wealth in habitats and resources rather than in economic exchange. What compels our post-human identification with these characters?Modern Animalism explores representations of the human-animal ‘problem creature’ in a broad assortment of literature and comics from the late nineteenth century to the present - including authors such as Woolf, Joyce, Lawrence, Moore, Murakami, Pullman, Coetzee, and Atwood, and comics creators such as McCay, Herriman, Miyazaki, and Morrison. Drawing on a wide range of scholarship, from environmental economics to psychology, Glenn Willmott examines modern and post-modern allegories of the environment, the animal, and economics, highlighting the enduring and seductive appeal of the modern primitive in an age when living with less remains a powerful cultural wish
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