Reading Literary Animals: Medieval to Modern
- Submitting institution
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The University of Kent
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 18357
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Routledge
- ISBN
- 9781138093850
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- September
- Year of publication
- 2019
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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2
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- Yes
- Additional information
- As co-editor, Ryan had an equal share (33%) in the conception, design and editing of the volume. He also contributed a sole-authored chapter and co-wrote the Introduction that surveys the state of the field. His role exceeded 33% in certain aspects of the project: he was responsible for selecting and inviting the majority of contributors, who were targeted on the basis of their research profiles in order to fit the book's examination of key literary devices across genres and periods. Ryan also took a lead role during the production phase of the project (collating materials, liaising with the copy-editor and indexer). An extensive editing process included two stages of responses to contributors with feedback; in some cases, comments were provided on as many as four or five revised versions of essays before submission. The project’s main aim was to examine the status of literary animal studies (and particularly the methodology of close reading) within the interdisciplinary field of human-animal studies by creating an intradisciplinary dialogue between scholars working in traditional literary periods. Published simultaneously in hardback, paperback and eBook in a series with good visibility (Routledge’s ‘Perspectives on the Non-Human in Literature and Culture’), the resulting book is an essential resource for any student or scholar of literary animal studies.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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