Animal Bodies, Renaissance Culture / / Karen Raber.

Animal Bodies, Renaissance Culture examines how the shared embodied existence of early modern human and nonhuman animals challenged the establishment of species distinctions. The material conditions of the early modern world brought humans and animals into complex interspecies relationships that hav...

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Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2013]
©2013
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Haney Foundation Series
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Physical Description:1 online resource (248 p.) :; 27 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction. Absent Bodies
  • Chapter 1. Resisting Bodies: Renaissance Animal Anatomies
  • Chapter 2. Erotic Bodies: Loving Horses
  • Chapter 3. Mutual Consumption: The Animal Within
  • Chapter 4. Animal Architectures: Urban Beasts
  • Chapter 5. Working Bodies: Laboring Moles and Cannibal Sheep
  • Conclusion. Knowing Animals
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments