The rise of animals and descent of man, 1660-1800 : toward posthumanism in British literature between Descartes and Darwin /
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| Author / Creator: | Morillo, John D., author. |
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| Imprint: | Newark : University of Delaware Press ; Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2018] |
| Description: | xliii, 219 pages ; 24 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11375164 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: British Animal Discourse between Cartesian and Darwinian Bookends
- 1. On the Posthuman Character of Cavendish's Fantastic Hyphenated Creatures
- 2. Cultured Children and the Natural World: Problems with Animal Sympathy in Lessons for the Rising Generation of Readers, 1730-1800
- 3. Anglican Clerics and Animal Clemency, 1675-1792
- 4. Cowper's Creatures: The Orpheus of Olney and His "Symptoms of Either Sex"
- 5. The Other Darwin: Posthumanism's Dignified Pantomime, Eleusinian Mysteries of Evolution, and the Descent of Man in Erasmus Darwin's Temple of Nature
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author
