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Humans and other animals in eighteenth-century British culture representation, hybridity, ethics

Frank Palmeri

Aldershot, England Ashgate Burlington, VT c2006

Localização: IB - Instituto de Biociências    (Q128 H918 )(Acessar)

  • Título:
    Humans and other animals in eighteenth-century British culture representation, hybridity, ethics
  • Autor: Frank Palmeri
  • Assuntos: English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism; Animals in literature; English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Animal welfare -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century; Human-animal relationships in literature; Ethics in literature; Literatur; Tierethik; ÉTICA; CIÊNCIA; Geschichte 1700-1800
  • Notas: Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-214) and index
  • Descrição: Representation, hybridity, ethics Gross metampsychosis and Eastern soul The lady and the lapdog: mixed ethnicity in Constantinople, fashionable pets in Britain Gulliver's travels and studies of skin color in the royal society Gulliver the Houyahoo: Swift, Locke, and the ethics of excessive individualism The autocritique of fables Animal nomenclature: facing other animals Man's animal nature: science, art, and satire in Thomas Rowlandson's "Studies in comparative anatomy" "Listen to me": Frankenstein as an appeal to mercy and justice, on behalf of the persecuted animals Shelley's great chain of being: from "blind worms" to "new-fledged eagles" Gulliver and the lives of animals Animal, vegetable, mineral: the play of species in Pynchon's Mason & Dixon
    The essays in this collection focus on issues raised by the representation of animals and animal-human relations in Britain from 1660-1832. Most of the essays are by literary scholars, and analysis of literary, philosophical, and popular texts play a role in all of them
  • Editor: Aldershot, England Ashgate Burlington, VT
  • Data de criação/publicação: c2006
  • Formato: xi, 217 p., [14] leaves of plates ill. 24 cm.
  • Idioma: Inglês

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