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Author Raber, Karen, 1961-

Title Animal bodies, Renaissance culture / Karen Raber
Edition First edition
Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2013]

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Description 1 online resource (234 pages) : illustrations, facsimiles
Series Haney Foundation series
Haney Foundation series.
Contents Introduction : Absent Bodies -- Resisting Bodies : Renaissance Animal Anatomies -- Erotic Bodies : Loving Horses -- Mutual Consumption : The Animal Within -- Animal Architectures : Urban Beasts -- Working Bodies : Laboring Moles and Cannibal Sheep -- Conclusion : Knowing Animals
Summary This book reconsiders interactions between environment, body, and consciousness found in early modern works, from More's Utopia and Shakespeare's Hamlet to husbandry manuals, anatomy texts, and horsemanship treatises
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-230) and index
Notes In English
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Subject Animals (Philosophy) -- Europe -- History -- 16th century
Animals (Philosophy) -- Europe -- History -- 17th century
Animal intelligence -- Philosophy -- History -- 16th century
Animal intelligence -- Philosophy -- History -- 17th century
Human-animal relationships -- Europe -- History -- 16th century
Human-animal relationships -- Europe -- History -- 17th century
Human beings -- Animal nature -- History -- 16th century
Human beings -- Animal nature -- History -- 17th century
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Animals (Philosophy)
Human-animal relationships.
Human beings -- Animal nature.
Europe.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2013004238
ISBN 0812208595
9780812208597