Human, All Too Human

First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

List of contents

Introduction, Diana Fuss; Part 1 Animal; Chapter 1 Heavy Petting, Marjorie Garber; Chapter 2 Barring the Cross, Harriet Ritvo; Part 2 Thing; Chapter 3 The Dream of a Butterfly, Rey Chow; Chapter 4 City Things, Nancy Armstrong; Chapter 5 Muteness Envy, Barbara Johnson; Chapter 6 1553: Putting a First Foot Forward, David Wills; Part 3 Child; Chapter 7 “A Heterogeneous Thing”: Female Childhood and the Rise of Racial Thinking in Victorian Britain, Cora Kaplan; Chapter 8 Producing Erotic Children, James R. Kincaid; Chapter 9 The Right to Abortion and the Imaginary Domain, Drucilla Cornell;

About the author

Diana Fuss is Associate Professor of English at Princeton University. She is the author of Essentially Speaking:Feminism, Nature and Difference and IdentificationPapers, both published by Routledge.

Summary

Human, All Too Human considers how we radicalize our notion of the human. The nine essays in this book all attempt to rethink the category of the human, challenging some of our most cherished cultural classifications.

Product details

• Assisted by: Diana Fuss (Editor), Fuss Diana (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.12.1995
• EAN: 9780415914994
• ISBN: 978-0-415-91499-4
• No. of pages: 256
• Weight: 521 g
• Series: Essays from the English Institute
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; History, Cultural Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, Literature & literary studies, Humanities, Biography, Literature and Literary studies