Animals and Other People : Literary Forms and Living Beings in the Long Eighteenth Century.

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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.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Keenleyside, Heather
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc., 2016.
Subjects:
1700-1799
English literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
Animals in literature.
Animals (Philosophy)
Human-animal relationships in literature.
Personification in literature.
Literary form > History > 18th century.
Littérature anglaise > 18e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Animaux dans la littérature.
Animaux (Philosophie)
Relations homme-animal dans la littérature.
Personnification (Littérature)
Genres littéraires > Histoire > 18e siècle.
personification.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Animals in literature
English literature
Human-animal relationships in literature
Literary form
Personification in literature
Tiere > Motiv
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • 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.

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