Civilized Creatures Cornelius Martin Kerwin Sheila Bock

Sheila Bock

'' Here we meet murderers and millionaires

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events reveal themselves in dramatic hour-by-hour simultaneous time as scenes shift from frontlines to home fronts

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Civilized Creatures Cornelius Martin Kerwin Sheila BockIn Civilized Creatures, Jennifer Mason challenges some of our most enduring ideas about how encounters with nonhuman nature shaped American literature and culture. Mason argues that in the second half of the nineteenth century the most powerful influence on Americans' understanding of their affinities with animals was not increasing separation from the pastoral and the wilderness; instead, it was the population's feelings about the ostensibly