Fiction Without Humanity Person, Animal, Thing in Early Enlightenment Literature and Culture |
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| Author:
| Festa, Lynn |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8122-5131-9 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 2019 |
| Publisher: | University of Pennsylvania Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $99.95 |
Book Description:
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Drawing on the estranging perspectives of nonhuman creatures and inanimate things in riddles, fables, novels, scientific treatises, and trompe l'oeil and still-life painting, Fiction Without Humanity offers a literary history of late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century efforts to define the human.
Drawing on the estranging perspectives of nonhuman creatures and inanimate things in riddles, fables, novels, scientific treatises, and trompe l'oeil and still-life painting, Fiction Without Humanity offers a literary history of late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century efforts to define the human.