Humans and Other Animals in Eighteenth-Century British Culture
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Act III
Animal Kingdom
Animal Nomenclature
animal studies
Binomial Nomenclature
Blind Worms
Book III
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colonial discourse
comparative anatomy
Early Enlightenment Debates
East Indies
eighteenth-century British animal ethics
eighteenth-century British culture
Enlightenment science
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Exotic Luxury Goods
Exotic Pets
Gate Ways
Gay's Fables
Gay’s Fables
General Stud Book
Gulliver's Description
Gulliver’s Description
Human Animal Relations
Human Beings
Human Kind
Human Woe
human-animal pairings
hybridity
literary animality
Martinus Scriblerus
Non-human Animals
Nonhuman Animal
Oriental Tales
Prometheus Unbound
rationalizing spirit
species classification
Talking Dog
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- ISBN 9781138255876
- Weight: 460g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 30 Jun 2020
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Combining historical and interpretive work, this collection examines changing perceptions of and relations between human and nonhuman animals in Britain over the long eighteenth century. Persistent questions concern modes of representing animals and animal-human hybrids, as well as the ethical issues raised by the human uses of other animals. From the animal men of Thomas Rowlandson to the part animal-part human creature of Victor Frankenstein, hybridity serves less as a metaphor than as a metonym for the intersections of humans and other animals. The contributors address such recurring questions as the implications of the Enlightenment project of naming and classifying animals, the equating of non-European races and nonhuman animals in early ethnographic texts, and the desire to distinguish the purely human from the entirely nonhuman animal. Gulliver's Travels and works by Mary and Percy Shelley emerge as key texts for this study. The volume will be of interest to scholars and students who work in animal, colonial, gender, and cultural studies; and will appeal to general readers concerned with the representation of animals and their treatment by humans.
Professor Frank Palmeri is Professor of English at the University of Miami, and author of Satire in Narrative (1990) and Satire, History, Novel: Narrative Forms, 1665-1815 (2003).
