This collection examines changing perceptions of and relations between humans and nonhuman animals in Britain. As the contributors pose questions related to modes of representing animals and animal-human hybrids, Gulliver's Travels and works by Mary and Percy Shelley emerge as key texts. The volume will interest scholars, students, and general readers concerned with the representation of animals and ethical issues raised by the human uses of other animals.
This collection examines changing perceptions of and relations between humans and nonhuman animals in Britain. As the contributors pose questions related to modes of representing animals and animal-human hybrids, Gulliver's Travels and works by Mary and Percy Shelley emerge as key texts. The volume will interest scholars, students, and general readers concerned with the representation of animals and ethical issues raised by the human uses of other animals.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Professor Frank Palmeri is Professor of English at the University of Miami, and author of Satire in Narrative (1990) and Satire, History, Novel: Narrative Forms, 1665-1815 (2003).
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Contents: Introduction: Representation hybridity ethics Frank Palmeri; Gross metempsychosis and Eastern soul Chi-ming Yang; The Lady and the Lapdog: mixed ethnicity in Constantinople fashionable pets in Britain Theresa Braunschneider; Gulliver's Travels and studies of skin color in the Royal Society Cristina Malcolmson; Gulliver the Houyahoo: Swift Locke and the ethics of excessive individualism Allen Michie; The autocritique of fables Frank Palmeri; Animal nomenclature: facing other animals Richard Nash; Man's animal nature: science art and satire in Thomas Rowlandson's 'studies in comparative anatomy' Arline Meyer; 'Listen to me': Frankenstein as an appeal to mercy and justice on behalf of the persecuted animals Stephanie Rowe; Shelley's great chain of being: from 'blind worms' to 'new-fledged eagles' Lisbeth Chapin; Gulliver and the lives of animals Jonathan Lamb; Animal vegetable mineral: the play of species in Pynchon's Mason & Dixon Elizabeth Jane Wall Hinds; Bibliography; Index.
Contents: Introduction: Representation hybridity ethics Frank Palmeri; Gross metempsychosis and Eastern soul Chi-ming Yang; The Lady and the Lapdog: mixed ethnicity in Constantinople fashionable pets in Britain Theresa Braunschneider; Gulliver's Travels and studies of skin color in the Royal Society Cristina Malcolmson; Gulliver the Houyahoo: Swift Locke and the ethics of excessive individualism Allen Michie; The autocritique of fables Frank Palmeri; Animal nomenclature: facing other animals Richard Nash; Man's animal nature: science art and satire in Thomas Rowlandson's 'studies in comparative anatomy' Arline Meyer; 'Listen to me': Frankenstein as an appeal to mercy and justice on behalf of the persecuted animals Stephanie Rowe; Shelley's great chain of being: from 'blind worms' to 'new-fledged eagles' Lisbeth Chapin; Gulliver and the lives of animals Jonathan Lamb; Animal vegetable mineral: the play of species in Pynchon's Mason & Dixon Elizabeth Jane Wall Hinds; Bibliography; Index.
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