![]() Others, like Sewell, used anthropomorphism unapologetically-to enhance the reader's identification with their animal protagonists. Some, like Thompson Seton, purported to describe the natural world and the consciousness of animals with a high degree of scientific accuracy. Most of the authors of such tales (Anna Sewell and Ernest Thompson Seton, for example) wrote with the specific goal of increasing public awareness of wild and domesticated animals and often represented the animal's point of view, sometimes in the first person. ![]() Jack London published The Call of the Wild and White Fang after a new kind of animal story had become wildly popular. Roberts' Kindred of the Wild, in "Real and Sham Natural History," Atlantic Monthly, vol. "True it is that all the animals whose lives are portrayed… are simply human beings disguised as animals they think, feel, plan, suffer as we do… But in other respects they follow closely the facts of natural history and the reader is not deceived." John Burroughs on Ernest Thompson Seton's Wild Animals I Have Known, in "Real and Sham Natural History," Atlantic Monthly, vol. Thompson Seton says in capital letters that his stories are true and it is this emphatic assertion that makes the judicious grieve." ![]() " line between fact and fiction is repeatedly crossed and… a deliberate attempt is made to induce the reader to cross too… Mr. ![]()
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