Heather Keenleyside

Animals and Other People

Literary Forms and Living Beings in the Long Eighteenth Century

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Produktbeschreibung

Demonstrating the centrality of animals to an eighteenth-century literary and philosophical tradition, Animals and Other People argues for the importance of this tradition to current discussions of what life is and how we might live together.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 162mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 596g
• ISBN-13: 9780812248579
• ISBN-10: 0812248570
• Artikelnr.: 44825678

Autorenporträt

Heather Keenleyside

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Animals and Other Figures
Chapter 1. The Person: Poetry, Personification, and the Composition of
Domestic Society
Chapter 2. The Creature: Domestic Politics and the Novelistic Character
Chapter 3. The Human: Satire and the Naturalization of the Person
Chapter 4. The Animal: The Life Narrative as a Form of Life
Chapter 5. The Child: The Fabulous Animal and the Family Pet
Coda. Growing Human
Notes
Works Cited
Index
Acknowledgments