Human-animal interactions in the eighteenth century : : from pest and predators to pets, poems and philosophy / / edited by Stefanie Stockhorst, Jürgen Overhoff, and Penelope J. Corfield.
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 l...
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| Superior document: | Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; volume 207 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, Massachusetts : : Brill,, [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English French |
| Series: | Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ;
v. 207. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource :; illustrations (chiefly color) |
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Table of Contents:
- List of Figures
- Notes on Contributors / Notes sur les contributeurs
- 1 Editorial Introduction Animals from Pests and Predators to Companions and Cultural Markers
- Penelope J. Corfield, Stefanie Stockhorst and Jürgen Overhoff
- 2 Introduction des editeurs Les animaux : de ravageurs et de prédateurs à des compagnons et des repères culturels
- Penelope J. Corfield, Stefanie Stockhorst et Jürgen Overhoff
- 3 Human-Animal Relations in the Eighteenth Century Insights from Current Fields of Research
- Anna-Marie Humbert
- 4 Of Dogs and Horses Frederick the Great and His Dearest Animals
- Jürgen Overhoff
- 5 The Invention of the ' Cheval-machine ' as a Medical Response to the Machine Paradigm of the Enlightenment Samuel Theodor Quellmaltz in Context
- Stefanie Stockhorst
- 6 « Les animaux, nos confrères » dans l'œuvre de Voltaire
- Halima Ouanada
- 7 On the Popularity of Songbirds in Eighteenth-Century German Fables
- Kristin Eichhorn
- 8 The Talking Parrot Brazilian National Symbol and Avatar of Human Identity for John Locke
- Antônio Carlos dos Santos
- 9 Troglodytes, the Monkey Diana and the Aping Swede - Carl Linnaeus on Apes
- Annika Windahl Pontén
- 10 Les vers à soie et les vers dévoreurs de livres dans une bibliothèque des Lumières luxe et morbidité des 'insectes changeants' dans la poésie de Voltaire
- Vanessa de Senarclens
- 11 Electoral Animals in Eighteenth-Century England
- Matthew O. Grenby and Kendra Packham
- 12 "For I Will Consider My Cat Jeoffry" Cats and Creativity in Eighteenth-Century Britain
- Penelope J. Corfield
- Index of Names / Index des noms
- Index of Non-Human Animals / Index des animaux non-humains.