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Article: Kindred Brutes: Animals in Romantic-Period Writing. (Reviews of Books).(Book Review)
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- December 22, 2002
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Christine Kenyon-Jones. Kindred Brutes: Animals in Romantic-Period Writing. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate. 2001. Pp. viii, 229. $74.95. ISBN 0-7546-0332-6.
This new study is to be welcomed as a thoughtful contribution to the growing literature on. the cultural and historical depiction of animals in British society. As Kenyon-Jones elaborates, different texts depicted animals in a variety of ways and her detailed analysis helps draw the reader's attention to the way in which this was done in nineteenth-century fiction, poetry, and political discourse.
Kenyon-Jones situates her work within historical frameworks and characterizes the early nineteenth century as ...