Acknowledgements
I am deeply grateful for the remarkable support
of my primary supervisor, Dr
Jane Poyner. Without her willingness to supervise such an unusual (and
ambitious) project, this work might have never existed. Above all, I am humbled
by her unwavering faith in my abilities and quite extraordinary patience. Over
the many years we have worked together,
she has taught me to have
confidence in my ideas and has always encouraged me to follow the paths that
the research takes me. If it were
not for this valuable lesson, I might have never
valued the idea that popped into my head as a first-year undergraduate: does
anyone study the representation of animals in literature?
I am also indebted to my second supervisor, Dr Sinéad Moynihan for her
valuable advice and for helping to steer my thinking in the direction of Canadian
literature. Without her input, this might have been a very different project.
Finally, I thank the University of Exeter for
the support of the English
department throughout my years of study.
Contents
PAGE
ABSTRACT
02
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
03
CONTENTS
04
CHAPTER ONE
Introduction
06
“Ideas That Simply Will Not Go Away”:
The Legacy of The Wild Animal
Story
06
Literature Review: Defining Animal(ity)
Studies?
11
At the Crossroads
of Science, Advocacy,
and Literature: the Origins of Practical
Zoocriticism
18
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