| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations (chiefly color) |
| Series |
Internationale forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden literaturwissenschaft, 0929-6999 ; volume 207 |
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Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; v. 207.
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| Summary |
"How did humans respond to the eighteenth-century discovery of countless new species of animals? This book explores the gamut of intense human-animal interactions: from love to cultural identifications, moral reflections, philosophical debates, classification systems, mechanical copies, insults and literary creativity. Dogs, cats and horses, of course, play central roles. But this volume also features human reflections upon parrots, songbirds, monkeys, a rhino, an elephant, pigs, and geese - all the way through to the admired silkworms and the not-so-admired bookworms. An exceptionally wide array of source materials are used in this volume's ten separate contributions, plus the editorial introduction, to demonstrate this diversity. As eighteenth-century humans came to realise that they too are animals, they had to recast their relationships with their fellow living-beings on Planet Earth. And these considerations remain very much live ones to this day"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 18, 2022) |
| Subject |
Human-animal relationships -- History -- 18th century
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Animals and civilization.
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Human ecology.
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human ecology.
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Animals and civilization
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Human-animal relationships
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Human ecology
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Stockhorst, Stefanie, 1974- editor.
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Overhoff, Jürgen, 1967- editor.
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Corfield, P. J., editor
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| LC no. |
2021051238 |
| ISBN |
9004495398 |
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9789004495395 |
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