Lynn Festa

Gebundenes Buch

Fiction Without Humanity

Person, Animal, Thing in Early Enlightenment Literature and Culture

Beschreibung

Drawing on the estranging perspectives of nonhuman creatures and inanimate things in riddles, fables, novels, scientific treatises, trompe l'oeil, and still-life painting, Festa offers a literary history of late 17th- and early 18th-century efforts to define the human.

Autor

Lynn Festa is Professor of English at Rutgers University and author of Sentimental Figures of Empire in Eighteenth-Century Britain and France.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 364
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 160mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 816g
• ISBN-13: 9780812251319
• ISBN-10: 0812251318
• Artikelnr.: 53927956