Humans and Other Animals in Eighteenth-Century British Culture: Representation, Hybridity, Ethics
Frank Palmeri
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Paperback. Editor(s): Palmeri, Frank. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Condition
New
Publication date
2020
Number of Pages
246
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781138255876
SKU
V9781138255876
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99-1
About Frank Palmeri
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).
Reviews for Humans and Other Animals in Eighteenth-Century British Culture: Representation, Hybridity, Ethics
'This inspiring and critically sophisticated collection is an important addition to the growing literature on the representation of animals and animal-human relationships. This aspect of eighteenth-century and Romantic-period culture is subjected to well-informed and highly intelligent speculation from many unusual points of view, and readings of works such as Gulliver’s Travels and Frankenstein will be permanently changed by these analyses.' ... Read more