Homeless Dogs and Melancholy Apes - Humans and Other Animals in the Modern Literary Imagination

Summary

Brown shows how the literary works of the 18th century use animal-kind to bring abstract philosophical, ontological, and metaphysical questions into the realm of everyday experience, difference, hierarchy, intimacy, diversity, and transcendence.

Product details

• Authors: Laura Brown, Laura S. Brown
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2017
• EAN: 9781501713552
• ISBN: 978-1-5017-1355-2
• No. of pages: 176
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies