Human-animal interactions in the Eighteenth Century
- How did humans respond to the eighteenth-century discovery of countless new species of animals? This book explores the gamut of intense human-animal interactions: from love to cultural identifications, moral reflections, philosophical debates, classification systems, mechanical copies, insults and literary creativity. Dogs, cats and horses, of course, play central roles. But this volume also features human reflections upon parrots, songbirds, monkeys, a rhino, an elephant, pigs, and geese – all the way through to the admired silkworms and the not-so-admired bookworms. An exceptionally wide array of source materials are used in this volume’s ten separate contributions, plus the editorial introduction, to demonstrate this diversity. As eighteenth-century humans came to realise that they too are animals, they had to recast their relationships with their fellow living-beings on Planet Earth. And these considerations remain very much live ones to this day.
| URL: | https://brill.com/display/title/59628?contents=editorial-content |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004495395 |
| ISBN: | 978-90-04-49539-5 |
| ISBN: | 978-90-04-44872-8 |
| Title of parent work (German): | Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 207 |
| Subtitle (English): | from pests and predators to pets, poems and philosophy |
| Publisher: | Brill |
| Place of publishing: | Leiden |
| Editor(s): | Stefanie Stockhorst, Jürgen Overhoff, Penelope J. Corfield |
| Publication type: | Monograph/Edited Volume |
| Language: | English |
| Date of first publication: | 2022/12/16 |
| Publication year: | 2022 |
| Release date: | 2023/03/07 |
| Number of pages: | 195 |
| Organizational units: | Philosophische Fakultät / Institut für Germanistik |
| DDC classification: | 8 Literatur / 80 Literatur, Rhetorik, Literaturwissenschaft / 800 Literatur und Rhetorik |
