Animals and humans : sensibility and representation, 1650-1820 /

Animals and humans : sensibility and representation, 1650-1820 /

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Imprint:	Oxford, UK : Voltaire Foundation, [2017] ©2017
Description:	x, 323 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Oxford University studies in the Enlightenment, 0435-2866 ; 2017:04 Oxford University studies in the Enlightenment ; 2017:04.
Subject:	Human-animal relationships -- History -- 17th century. Human-animal relationships -- History -- 18th century. Human-animal relationships. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11052877

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Other authors / contributors:	Quinsey, Katherine M., 1955- editor.
ISBN:	9780729411936 0729411931
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-319) and index.
Summary:	"The animal-human relationship challenged not only disciplinary boundaries--between poetry and science, art and animal husbandry, natural history and fiction--but also the basic assumptions of human intellectual and cultural activity, expression, and self-perception. This is specifically apparent in the re-evaluation of sentiment and sensibility, which constitutes a major theme of this chronologically organised volume. Authors engage with contemporary reactions to the commodification of animals during the period of British imperialism, tracing how eighteenth-century ecological consciousness and notions of animal identity and welfare emerged from earlier, traditional models of the cosmos, and reassessing late eighteenth-century poetic representations of the sentimental encounter with the animal other. They show how human experience was no longer viewed as an iterative process but as one continually shaped by the other. In concluding chapters authors highlight the political resonances of the animal-human relationship as it was used both to represent and to redress the injustices between humans as well as between humans and animals. Through a multi-faceted study of eighteenth-century European culture, authors reveal how the animal presence--both real and imagined--forces a different reading not only of texts but also of society."--Page 4 of cover.

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