Fiction Without Humanity: Person, Animal, Thing in Early Enlightenment Literature and Culture
Lynn FestaDrawing on the estranging perspectives of nonhuman creatures and inanimate things in riddles, fables, novels, scientific treatises, and trompe l'oeil and still-life painting, Fiction Without Humanity offers a literary history of late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century efforts to define the human.
Drawing on the estranging perspectives of nonhuman creatures and inanimate things in riddles, fables, novels, scientific treatises, and trompe l'oeil and still-life painting, Fiction Without Humanity offers a literary history of late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century efforts to define the human.
Year:
2019
Publisher:
University of Pennsylvania Press
Language:
english
Pages:
364
ISBN 10:
0812296192
ISBN 13:
9780812296198
File:
PDF, 69.33 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2019