The Counterhuman Imaginary : : Earthquakes, Lapdogs, and Traveling Coinage in Eighteenth-Century Literature / / Laura Brown.
The Counterhuman Imaginary proposes that alongside the historical, social, and institutional structures of human reality that seem to be the sole subject of the literary text, an other-than-human world is everywhere in evidence. Laura Brown finds that within eighteenth-century British literature, th...
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| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Counterhuman Imaginary
- 1. Species Intimacies: Lapdogs and Banknotes
- 2. Active Matter, Vital Force: Newton and Defoe
- 3. The Uncreation of the Human: Pope’s Dunciad
- 4. “When Time Shall End”: Poetry of the Lisbon Earthquake
- 5. Storms and Torrents: Swift’s “A City Shower” and Defoe’s The Storm
- Coda: Just Beyond
- Index