exhuming beasts. Beasts at the table: Charles and Mary Lamb and roast animals. Living together: John Clare's creature community. Mourning in Eden's churchyard: Clare's animal bodies. Dead(ly) beasts: Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the wandering cemetery. Eccentric beasts: Byron's animal taboo and transgression. Landed beasts: William Wordsworth, the white doe, and the cuckoo.
Biography
Chase Pielak is Assistant Professor of English at Ashford University, USA. He has published on nineteenth-century literature, animal studies, and posthuman criticism.
"In Memorializing Animals, Pielak shows how animals have a place in the study of Romantic literature; their otherness provides the Romantics and us opportunities to rethink community and hospitality." - Ronald Broglio, Arizona State University
"The bookis an excellent read for anyone with interests in nineteenth Century British poetry or a desire to learn about animal memorialism." - George E. Dickinson, College of Charleston
