Karalyn Kendall-Morwick is Associate Professor of English at Washburn University.
“Clearly written and grounded in both literary theory and animal
studies, this work makes a substantial contribution to the
literature of both disciplines.”—R. D. Morrison Choice
“A long-overdue, definitive statement about the importance of dogs
in modernist literary fictions by a rising star of a new generation
in literary animal studies. Starting from the observation that
‘dogs populate a range of modernist texts yet remain notably absent
from critical accounts of the period,’ it fills a tremendous gap in
understandings of how and why literary representations both reflect
and influence the conceptual crisis of humanism that comes to a
head in the twentieth century.”—Susan McHugh, author of Love in a
Time of Slaughters: Human-Animal Stories Against Genocide and
Extinction
“[An] engaging monograph that marks out a new territory it calls
‘literary canine studies.’ Reading dog stories (fictional and
non-). . . Kendall-Morwick makes a convincing case for dogs’
crucial influence on understandings of human origins, literary
character, urban modernity, and the ethics of otherness in
Anglo-American modernism.”—Caroline Hovanec Journal of Modern
Literature
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