Animals and other people : literary forms and living beings in the long eighteenth century / Heather...
Animals and other people : literary forms and living beings in the long eighteenth century / Heather...
Animals and other people : literary forms and living beings in the long eighteenth century / Heather Keenleyside.
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Publisher
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]
Call Numbers
G 2017/2754
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Language
English
Physical Description
Physical content
272 pages ; 24 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
The person: poetry, personification, and the composition on domestic society -- The creature: domestic politics and the novelistic character -- The human: satire and the naturalization of the person -- The animal: the life narrative as a form of life -- The child: the fabulous animal and the family...
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Publisher
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]
Date Published
[2016]
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Summary
"In Animals and Other People, Heather Keenleyside argues for the central role of literary modes of knowledge in apprehending animal life. Keenleyside focuses on writers who populate their poetry, novels, and children's stories with conspicuously figurative animals, experiment with conventional genres like the beast fable, and write the "lives" of m...
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Animals and other people : literary forms and living beings in the long eighteenth century / Heather Keenleyside.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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©2016
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Call Numbers
G 2017/2754
Record Identifier
74VKVaQOkNRb
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVaQOkNRb
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ISBN
9780812248579
DDC
820.936209033
MMS ID
991024104319302626
