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Stalking the Subject: Modernism and the Animal
Paper, 208 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-14507-7
$27.50
/ £19.00
November, 2008
Cloth, 208 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-14506-0
$79.50
/ £55.00
"Accessible to any determined reader due to [Rohman’s] engaging, clear writing style and her compelling critical readings of specific modernist texts." — Choice
"In this penetrating, theoretically informed analysis, Carrie Rohman extends the study of modernist anxieties over boundaries of race and gender to the species barrier. She both reassesses the influences of Charles Darwin and Sigmund Freud and approaches the modernist animal closely and even reciprocally in readings of Joseph Conrad, H. G. Wells, Djuna Barnes, and especially D. H. Lawrence." — Bonnie Scott, professor and chair of women's studies, San Diego State University
"Smart, timely, and incisive, Stalking the Subject makes an important contribution to modernist criticism and consolidates crucial work in animal studies. Carrie Rohman draws on Cary Wolfe's seminal Animal Rites to frame psychoanalysis from Sigmund Freud to Slavoj Zizek and Anglo-American modernist literature from H. G. Wells to Djuna Barnes. Especially notable is her vigorous contribution to the ongoing delineation of D. H. Lawrence's posthumanism. Stalking the Subject revises modernism from the side of the animal other." — Bruce Clarke, professor of literature and science, Texas Tech University