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Description of  Pet Projects: Animal Fiction and Taxidermy in the Nineteenth-Century Archive (Animalibus: Of Animals and Cultures)

In Pet Projects, Elizabeth Young joins an analysis of the representation of animals in nineteenth-century fiction, taxidermy, and the visual arts with a first-person reflection on her own scholarly journey. Centering on Margaret Marshall Saunders, a Canadian woman writer once famous for her animal novels, and incorporating Youngs own experience of a beloved animals illness, this study highlights the personal and intellectual stakes of a pet project of cultural criticism. Read more