Animals, disasters, love: Book traces nonhuman voices in literature
December 19, 2023
December 19, 2023
ITHACA, New York, Dec. 19 -- Cornell University issued the following news:
One day in seminar, literature scholar Laura Brown imposed a limit on the discussion: for an entire class on Samuel Richardson's "Pamela," no one could mention a human character.
"We found that the book was full of other-than-human beings: objects, structures, spaces, natural phenomena," said Brown, the John Wendell Anderson Professor of English in the College of Arts and Scie . . .
One day in seminar, literature scholar Laura Brown imposed a limit on the discussion: for an entire class on Samuel Richardson's "Pamela," no one could mention a human character.
"We found that the book was full of other-than-human beings: objects, structures, spaces, natural phenomena," said Brown, the John Wendell Anderson Professor of English in the College of Arts and Scie . . .