Christine Kenyon-Jone Kindred Brutes: Animals in Romantic-Period Writing.

Christine Kenyon-Jone Kindred Brutes: Animals in Romantic-Period Writing. Burlington, Vt: Ashgate. 2001 Pp viii, 229 $7495 ISBN 0-7546-0332-6

This of recent origin study is to be welcomed as a heedful contribution to the growing literature forward the cultural and historical depiction of animals in British society. As Kenyon-Jone elaborates, different sentences 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, metrical composition and political discourse.

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