A Parliament of Monsters: Romantic Nonhumans and Victorian Erasure
A Parliament of Monsters: Romantic Nonhumans and Victorian Erasure
Shows the robust nonhuman concern in Romantic works through new readings of Mary Shelley, Burns, Wordsworth, Clare, and Coleridge. The chapter traces these themes and forms of threatened, abject life as an expansive multispecies community of suffering. These works interrogate the weakness of expressive forms, performing the very captivity they lament. Wordsworth’s poem on the Bartholomew Fair is a fulcrum to the London studies in the book. These forms of expression are then examined in Dickens’s narratology and the narrator-object Esther in Bleak House.
Keywords: Nonhuman, Form, Suffering, Community, Bleak House
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