Human-Animal Interactions in the Eighteenth Century - From Pests and Predators to Pets, Poems and Philosophy (English, French, Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Brill
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Series:	Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft, 207
Release date:	December 2021
First published:	2022
Volume editors:	Stefanie Stockhorst • Jurgen Overhoff • Penelope J. Corfield
Dimensions:	235 x 155mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	198
ISBN-13:	978-90-04-44872-8
Languages:	English • French
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > General Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > History of ideas, intellectual history Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Animals & society > General Promotions
LSN:	90-04-44872-1
Barcode:	9789004448728

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