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The Animal Claim: Sensibility and the Creaturely Voice
Tobias Menely
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Description for The Animal Claim: Sensibility and the Creaturely Voice
Paperback. Placing sensibility in dialogue with classical and early-modern antecedents as well as contemporary animal studies,this book uncovers crucial connections between eighteenth-century poetry; theories of communication; and post-absolutist, rights-based politics. Num Pages: 280 pages, 4 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JF; DSBD; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 154 x 17. Weight in Grams: 418.
During the eighteenth century, some of the most popular British poetry showed a responsiveness to animals that anticipated the later language of animal rights. Such poems were widely cited in later years by legislators advocating animal welfare laws like Martin's Act of 1822, which provided protections for livestock. In The Animal Claim, Tobias Menely links this poetics of sensibility with Enlightenment political philosophy, the rise of the humanitarian public, and the fate of sentimentality, as well as longstanding theoretical questions about voice as a medium of communication. In the Restoration and eighteenth century, philosophers emphasized the role of sympathy in ... Read more
During the eighteenth century, some of the most popular British poetry showed a responsiveness to animals that anticipated the later language of animal rights. Such poems were widely cited in later years by legislators advocating animal welfare laws like Martin's Act of 1822, which provided protections for livestock. In The Animal Claim, Tobias Menely links this poetics of sensibility with Enlightenment political philosophy, the rise of the humanitarian public, and the fate of sentimentality, as well as longstanding theoretical questions about voice as a medium of communication. In the Restoration and eighteenth century, philosophers emphasized the role of sympathy in ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226239392
SKU
V9780226239392
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About Tobias Menely
Tobias Menely is assistant professor of English at the University of California, Davis.
Reviews for The Animal Claim: Sensibility and the Creaturely Voice
"Menely's passionately eloquent The Animal Claim accomplishes what many would consider the impossible feat of making eighteenth-century poetry a matter of pressing concern to a wide range of fields, extending beyond eighteenth-century studies and literary studies more generally to include political theory, philosophy, ecocriticism, and the growing field of animal studies. This book is one of the most convincing accounts ... Read more