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Homeless dogs & melancholy apes : humans and other animals in the modern literary imagination /

""I read Homeless Dogs and Melancholy Apes with great eagerness and found it to be a book of compelling interest, wonderful erudition, and nuanced, sophisticated analysis. It brings innovative perspectives and contexts to bear on core eighteenth-century topics and texts. Laura Brown takes...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Brown, Laura, 1949-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2010.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Speculative space : the rise of the animal in the modern imagination
  • Mirror scene : the orangutan, the ancients, and the cult of sensibility
  • Immoderate love : the lady and the lapdog
  • Violent intimacy : the monkey and the marriage plot
  • Dog narrative : itinerancy, diversity, and the Elysium for dogs.