Festa Lynn Fiction Without Humanity: Person, Animal, Thing in Early Enlightenment Literature and Culture 9780812225051

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Автор: Festa Lynn
Название: Fiction Without Humanity: Person, Animal, Thing in Early Enlightenment Literature and Culture
ISBN: 9780812225051
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Литературоведение: с 1500 до 1800 г.

ISBN-10: 0812225058
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 364
Вес: 0.53 кг.
Дата издания: 05.10.2021
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 4 color, 11 b/w illus.
Размер: 23.11 x 15.49 x 1.52 cm
Ключевые слова: Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Подзаголовок: Person, animal, thing in early enlightenment literature and culture
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Поставляется из: Англии
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Although the Enlightenment is often associated with the emergence of human rights and humanitarian sensibility, humanity is an elusive category in the literary, philosophical, scientific, and political writings of the period. Fiction Without Humanity offers a literary history of late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century efforts to define the human. Focusing on the shifting terms in which human difference from animals, things, and machines was expressed, Lynn Festa argues that writers and artists treated humanity as an indefinite class, which needed to be called into being through literature and the arts.
Drawing on an array of literary, scientific, artistic, and philosophical devices— the riddle, the fable, the microscope, the novel, and trompe loeil and still-life painting— Fiction Without Humanity focuses on experiments with the perspectives of nonhuman creatures and inanimate things. Rather than deriving species membership from sympathetic identification or likeness to a fixed template, early Enlightenment writers and artists grounded humanity in the enactment of capacities (reason, speech, educability) that distinguish humans from other creatures, generating a performative model of humanity capacious enough to accommodate broader claims to human rights.
In addressing genres typically excluded from canonical literary histories, Fiction Without Humanity offers an alternative account of the rise of the novel, showing how these early experiments with nonhuman perspectives helped generate novelistic techniques for the representation of consciousness. By placing the novel in a genealogy that embraces paintings, riddles, scientific plates, and fables, Festa shows realism to issue less from mimetic exactitude than from the tailoring of the represented world to a distinctively human point of view.

Дополнительное описание:

Introduction
Chapter 1. Bird's-Eye View
Chapter 2. Lousy Bodies
Chapter 3. Anthropomorphic Things
Chapter 4. Flea, Fly, Fable
Chapter 5. Crusoe's Island of Misfit Things
Coda
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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Fiction Without Humanity: Person, Animal, Thing in Early Enlightenment Literature and Culture, Festa Lynn