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The accommodated animal : cosmopolity in Shakespearean locales /
Shakespeare wrote of lions, shrews, horned toads, curs, mastifss, and hell-hounds. But he used the word 'animal' only eight times in his work - which was typical for the 16th century, when the word was rarely used. As Laurie Shannon reveals in this book, the animal-human divide first came...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago ; London :
The University of Chicago Press,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The law's first subjects: animal stakeholders, human tyranny, and the political life of early modern genesis
- A cat may look upon a king: four-footed estate, locomotion, and the prerogative of free animals
- Poor, bare, forked: animal happiness and the zoographic critique of humanity
- Night-rule: the alternative politics of the dark; or, Empires of the nonhuman
- Hang-dog looks: from subjects at law to objects of science in animal trials.