 | Animalia Americana: Animal Representations and Biopolitical Subjectivity Subjects: American literature -- History and criticism; Animals in literature; Subjectivity in literature; Human-animal relationships -- United States; From the bestiality trials of the seventeenth-century Plymouth Plantation to the emergence of sentimental pet culture in the nineteenth, Boggs traces a history of human-animal sexuality in America, one shaped by sexualized animal bodies and affective pet relations. Colleen Glenney Boggs is associate professor of English and women's and gender studies at Dartmouth College and the author of Transnationalism and American Literature: Literary Translation, 1773-1892 . |
