Fiction Without Humanity : : Person, Animal, Thing in Early Enlightenment Literature and Culture / / Lynn Festa.
Although the Enlightenment is often associated with the emergence of human rights and humanitarian sensibility, "humanity" is an elusive category in the literary, philosophical, scientific, and political writings of the period. Fiction Without Humanity offers a literary history of late sev...
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Festa, Lynn, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Fiction Without Humanity : Person, Animal, Thing in Early Enlightenment Literature and Culture / Lynn Festa. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2019] ©2019 1 online resource (364 p.) : 4 color, 11 b/w illus. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Bird’s-Eye View -- Chapter 2. Lousy Bodies -- Chapter 3. Anthropomorphic Things -- Chapter 4. Flea, Fly, Fable -- Chapter 5. Crusoe’s Island of Misfit Things -- Coda -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Although the Enlightenment is often associated with the emergence of human rights and humanitarian sensibility, "humanity" is an elusive category in the literary, philosophical, scientific, and political writings of the period. Fiction Without Humanity offers a literary history of late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century efforts to define the human. Focusing on the shifting terms in which human difference from animals, things, and machines was expressed, Lynn Festa argues that writers and artists treated humanity as an indefinite class, which needed to be called into being through literature and the arts.Drawing on an array of literary, scientific, artistic, and philosophical devices— the riddle, the fable, the microscope, the novel, and trompe l'oeil and still-life painting— Fiction Without Humanity focuses on experiments with the perspectives of nonhuman creatures and inanimate things. Rather than deriving species membership from sympathetic identification or likeness to a fixed template, early Enlightenment writers and artists grounded humanity in the enactment of capacities (reason, speech, educability) that distinguish humans from other creatures, generating a performative model of humanity capacious enough to accommodate broader claims to human rights.In addressing genres typically excluded from canonical literary histories, Fiction Without Humanity offers an alternative account of the rise of the novel, showing how these early experiments with nonhuman perspectives helped generate novelistic techniques for the representation of consciousness. By placing the novel in a genealogy that embraces paintings, riddles, scientific plates, and fables, Festa shows realism to issue less from mimetic exactitude than from the tailoring of the represented world to a distinctively human point of view. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Jun 2021) Anthropomorphism in literature. English prose literature 17th century History and criticism. English prose literature 18th century History and criticism. Enlightenment Europe. Fictions, Theory of. Humanity in literature. Philosophical anthropology Europe History. LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. bisacsh Cultural Studies. Literature. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2019 English 9783110610765 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2019 9783110664232 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural and Area Stud. 2019 English 9783110610369 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural and Area Studies 2019 9783110606348 ZDB-23-DKU Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Complete eBook-Package 2019 9783110652055 https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812296198 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812296198 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780812296198.jpg |
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