One Man Giveth, Another Taketh Away: Pet Ownership, Romantic Courtship, and Financial Hardship in Haywood’s Miss Betsy Thoughtless (1751) and Burney’s Camilla (1796)
“All commerce of this kind between men and women is like that of the Boys and Frogs in L’Estrange’s Fable.—‘Tis play to you, but ‘tis...
On Animal Languages in the Middle Ages: Representations of Interspecies Communication, ed. Alison Langdon. New York, Palgrave, 2018
This interdisciplinary volume of 13 essays, divided into three parts (Part I Communicating Through Animals, Part II Recovering Animal Languages, and Part III Embodied Language...
On Crane, Susan. Animal Encounters: Contacts and Concepts in Medieval Britain. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013.
For Crane, recovering the living animal’s place within the written animal is crucial for understanding animal encounters’ impact in medieval literature. Though animals are seen...
On Erwin, Bonnie J. “Beyond Mastery: Interspecies Communication in the Middle English Romance.” Exemplaria 29 (2017): 41-57
Along with Ralph’s reading below, this article illuminates animal agency in the middle English romance Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, albeit taking a broader...
On Estes, Heide. Anglo-Saxon Literary Landscapes: Ecotheory and the Environmental Imagination. Amsterdam, Amsterdam University Press, 2017
While literary scholars traditionally understood landscapes as metaphors, this recent book (recommended to me due to Estes’ status as the most prolific, and one of...