Fiction without humanity : person, animal, thing in early Enlightenment literature and culture / Lyn...
Fiction without humanity : person, animal, thing in early Enlightenment literature and culture / Lyn...
Fiction without humanity : person, animal, thing in early Enlightenment literature and culture / Lynn Festa.
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Publisher
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2019]
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G 2019/6183
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Language
English
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Physical content
350 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Content type
text
still image
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Introduction -- 1. Bird's eye view -- 2. Lousy Bodies -- 3. Anthropomorphic things -- 4. Flea, fly, fable -- 5. Crusoe's Island of misfit things.
Publication information
Publisher
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2019]
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania
Date Published
[2019]
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Summary
Although the Enlightenment is often associated with the emergence of human rights and humanitarian sensibility, "humanity" is an elusive category in the literary, philosophical, scientific, and political writings of the period. Fiction Without Humanity offers a literary history of late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century efforts to define the...
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Fiction without humanity : person, animal, thing in early Enlightenment literature and culture / Lynn Festa.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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©2019
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G 2019/6183
Record Identifier
74VKawWzoQKZ
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKawWzoQKZ
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ISBN
0812251318 (hardcover)
9780812251319 (hardcover)
DDC
828.508
MMS ID
991024284418902626
