Aesthetics of Care

In this important new book from a distinguished scholar Josephine Donovan develops a new aesthetics of care which she establishes as the basis for a critical approach to the representation of animals in literature. <br/> <br/> <i>The Aesthetics of Care</i> begins with a guide to the relationship between ethics and aesthetics leading to a reconceptualization of key literary critical terms such as <i>mimesis</i> and <i>catharsis</i> before moving on to an applied section with interpretations of the specific treatment of animals handled by a wide range of authors including Willa Cather Leo Tolstoy George Sand and J.M. Coetzee. The book closes with three concluding theoretical chapters. <br/> <br/> Clear original and provocative <i>The Aesthetics of Care</i> introduces and makes new contributions to a number of burgeoning areas of study and debate: aesthetics and ethics critical theory animal ethics and ecofeminist criticism.