Title Animals and Other People : Literary Forms and Living Beings in the Long Eighteenth Century

Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc., 2016

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Description 1 online resource (281 pages) Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction. Animals and Other Figures -- Chapter 1. The Person: Poetry, Personification, and the Composition of Domestic Society -- Chapter 2. The Creature: Domestic Politics and the Novelistic Character -- Chapter 3. The Human: Satire and the Naturalization of the Person -- Chapter 4. The Animal: The Life Narrative as a Form of Life -- Chapter 5. The Child: The Fabulous Animal and the Family Pet -- Coda. Growing Human -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- Acknowledgments Summary Demonstrating the centrality of animals to an eighteenth-century literary and philosophical tradition, Animals and Other People argues for the importance of this tradition to current discussions of what life is and how we might live together Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes In English Print version record Subject English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism Animals in literature. Animals (Philosophy) Human-animal relationships in literature. Personification in literature. Literary form -- History -- 18th century personification. LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Animals in literature Animals (Philosophy) English literature Human-animal relationships in literature Literary form Personification in literature Tiere Motiv Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780812293302 0812293304 9780812248579 0812248570

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