Laura Brown Homeless Dogs and Melancholy Apes: Humans and Other Animals in the Modern Literary Imagination 9781501713552

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Автор: Laura Brown
Название: Homeless Dogs and Melancholy Apes: Humans and Other Animals in the Modern Literary Imagination
ISBN: 9781501713552
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Литературоведение: Общие вопросы

Литературоведение: с 1500 до 1800 г.

ISBN-10: 1501713558
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 176
Вес: 0.27 кг.
Дата издания: 31.01.2017
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 3 halftones, black and white
Размер: 152 x 228 x 16
Ключевые слова: Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh,NATURE / Animals / General
Подзаголовок: Humans and other animals in the modern literary imagination
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Поставляется из: Англии
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In eighteenth-century England, the encounter between humans and other animals took a singular turn with the discovery of the great apes and the rise of bourgeois pet keeping. These historical changes created a new cultural and intellectual context for the understanding and representation of animal-kind, and the nonhuman animal has thus played a significant role in imaginative literature from that period to the present day.

In Homeless Dogs and Melancholy Apes, Laura Brown shows how the literary works of the eighteenth century use animal-kind to bring abstract philosophical, ontological, and metaphysical questions into the realm of everyday experience, affording a uniquely flexible perspective on difference, hierarchy, intimacy, diversity, and transcendence. Writers of this first age of the rise of the animal in the modern literary imagination used their nonhuman characters—from the lapdogs of Alexander Pope and his contemporaries to the ill-mannered monkey of Frances Burneys Evelina or the ape-like Yahoos of Jonathan Swift—to explore questions of human identity and self-definition, human love and the experience of intimacy, and human diversity and the boundaries of convention. Later literary works continued to use imaginary animals to question human conventions of form and thought.

Brown pursues this engagement with animal-kind into the nineteenth century—through works by Mary Shelley, Charles Dickens, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning—and into the twentieth, with a concluding account of Paul Austers dog-novel, Timbuktu. Austers work suggests that—today as in the eighteenth century—imagining other animals opens up a potential for dissonance that creates distinctive opportunities for human creativity.

Дополнительное описание:

Preface
1 Speculative Space: The Rise of the Animal in the Modern Imagination
2 Mirror Scene: The Orangutan, the Ancients, and the Cult of Sensibility
3 Immoderate Love: The Lady and the Lapdog
4 Violent Intimacy: The Monkey and the Marriag

Homeless Dogs and Melancholy Apes: Humans and Other Animals in the Modern Literary Imagination, Laura Brown