LEADER 04235nam 2200685 a 450 001 9910456860503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8014-6216-9 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801462160 035 $a(CKB)2550000000036226 035 $a(OCoLC)732957161 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10468065 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000537615 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11368539 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000537615 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10554316 035 $a(PQKB)11153066 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3138186 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse28726 035 $a(DE-B1597)489603 035 $a(OCoLC)1024044635 035 $a(OCoLC)1054879650 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801462160 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3138186 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10468065 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000036226 100 $a20100311d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aHomeless dogs & melancholy apes$b[electronic resource] $ehumans and other animals in the modern literary imagination /$fLaura Brown 210 $aIthaca, N.Y. $cCornell University Press$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (170 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8014-4828-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aSpeculative space : the rise of the animal in the modern imagination -- Mirror scene : the orangutan, the ancients, and the cult of sensibility -- Immoderate love : the lady and the lapdog -- Violent intimacy : the monkey and the marriage plot -- Dog narrative : itinerancy, diversity, and the Elysium for dogs. 330 $aIn eighteenth-century England, the encounter between humans and other animals took a singular turn with the discovery of the great apes and the rise of bourgeois pet keeping. These historical changes created a new cultural and intellectual context for the understanding and representation of animal-kind, and the nonhuman animal has thus played a significant role in imaginative literature from that period to the present day.In Homeless Dogs and Melancholy Apes, Laura Brown shows how the literary works of the eighteenth century use animal-kind to bring abstract philosophical, ontological, and metaphysical questions into the realm of everyday experience, affording a uniquely flexible perspective on difference, hierarchy, intimacy, diversity, and transcendence. Writers of this first age of the rise of the animal in the modern literary imagination used their nonhuman characters-from the lapdogs of Alexander Pope and his contemporaries to the ill-mannered monkey of Frances Burney's Evelina or the ape-like Yahoos of Jonathan Swift-to explore questions of human identity and self-definition, human love and the experience of intimacy, and human diversity and the boundaries of convention. Later literary works continued to use imaginary animals to question human conventions of form and thought.Brown pursues this engagement with animal-kind into the nineteenth century-through works by Mary Shelley, Charles Dickens, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning-and into the twentieth, with a concluding account of Paul Auster's dog-novel, Timbuktu. Auster's work suggests that-today as in the eighteenth century-imagining other animals opens up a potential for dissonance that creates distinctive opportunities for human creativity. 606 $aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAnimals in literature 606 $aHuman-animal relationships in literature 606 $aPets in literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAnimals in literature. 615 0$aHuman-animal relationships in literature. 615 0$aPets in literature. 676 $a823/.009362 700 $aBrown$b Laura$f1949-$0563482 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910456860503321 996 $aHomeless dogs & melancholy apes$92466431 997 $aUNINA