John Morillo

Rise of Animals and Descent of Man, 1660-1800

Toward Posthumanism in British Literature between Descartes and Darwin

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Produktbeschreibung

The Rise of Animals analyzes the intellectual origins of our changing attitudes about animals and illuminates major currents of eighteenth-century British literary culture. It offers new readings of works by Margaret Cavendish, William Cowper, Erasmus Darwin, and others.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Delaware Press
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. November 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9781611496734
• ISBN-10: 161149673X
• Artikelnr.: 49458551

Autorenporträt

John Morillo is associate professor of English at North Carolina State University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Introduction: British Animal Discourse between Cartesian
and Darwinian Bookends Chapter One: On the Posthuman Character of
Cavendish's Fantastic Hyphenated Creatures Chapter Two: Cultured Children
and the Natural World: Problems with Animal Sympathy in Lessons for the
Rising Generation of Readers, 1730-1800 Chapter Three: Anglican Clerics and
Animal Clemency, 1675-1792 Chapter Four: Cowper's Creatures: The Orpheus of
Olney and His "Symptoms of Either Sex" Chapter Five: The Other Darwin:
Posthumanism's Dignified Pantomime, Eleusinian Mysteries of Evolution, and
the Descent of Man in Erasmus Darwin's Temple of Nature Bibliography About
the Author