Homeless Dogs and Melancholy Apes : : Humans and Other Animals in the Modern Literary Imagination / / Laura S. Brown.
In eighteenth-century England, the encounter between humans and other animals took a singular turn with the discovery of the great apes and the rise of bourgeois pet keeping. These historical changes created a new cultural and intellectual context for the understanding and representation of animal-k...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2011] ©2011 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (176 p.) :; 4 halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1. Speculative Space
- 2. Mirror Scene
- 3. Immoderate Love
- 4. Violent Intimacy
- 5. Dog Narrative
- Index