LEADER 04204nam 2200625 450 001 9910807739403321 005 20200520144314.0 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812293302 035 $a(CKB)3710000000884495 035 $a(DE-B1597)476938 035 $a(OCoLC)961452932 035 $a(OCoLC)979744654 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812293302 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4709256 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11287328 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL958583 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4709256 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000884495 100 $a20161031h20162016 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aAnimals and other people $eliterary forms and living beings in the long eighteenth century /$fHeather Keenleyside 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aPhiladelphia :$cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,$d[2016] 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (281 pages) 311 0 $a0-8122-4857-0 311 0 $a0-8122-9330-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIntroduction. Animals and Other Figures --$tChapter 1. The Person: Poetry, Personification, and the Composition of Domestic Society --$tChapter 2. The Creature: Domestic Politics and the Novelistic Character --$tChapter 3. The Human: Satire and the Naturalization of the Person --$tChapter 4. The Animal: The Life Narrative as a Form of Life --$tChapter 5. The Child: The Fabulous Animal and the Family Pet --$tCoda. Growing Human --$tNotes --$tWorks Cited --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aIn Animals and Other People, Heather Keenleyside argues for the central role of literary modes of knowledge in apprehending animal life. Keenleyside focuses on writers who populate their poetry, novels, and children's stories with conspicuously figurative animals, experiment with conventional genres like the beast fable, and write the "lives" of mice as well as men. From such writers-including James Thomson, Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, Laurence Sterne, Anna Letitia Barbauld, and others-she recovers a key insight about the representation of living beings: when we think and write about animals, we are never in the territory of strictly literal description, relying solely on the evidence of our senses. Indeed, any description of animals involves personification of a sort, if we understand personification not as a rhetorical ornament but as a fundamental part of our descriptive and conceptual repertoire, essential for distinguishing living beings from things. Throughout the book, animals are characterized by a distinctive mode of agency and generality; they are at once moving and being moved, at once individual beings and generic or species figures (every cat is also "The Cat"). Animals thus become figures with which to think about key philosophical questions about the nature of human agency and of social and political community. They also come into view as potential participants in that community, as one sort of "people" among others. Demonstrating the centrality of animals to an eighteenth-century literary and philosophical tradition, Animals and Other People also argues for the importance of this tradition to current discussions of what life is and how we might live together. 606 $aEnglish literature$y18th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAnimals in literature 606 $aAnimals (Philosophy) 606 $aHuman-animal relationships in literature 606 $aPersonification in literature 606 $aLiterary form$xHistory$y18th century 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAnimals in literature. 615 0$aAnimals (Philosophy) 615 0$aHuman-animal relationships in literature. 615 0$aPersonification in literature. 615 0$aLiterary form$xHistory 676 $a820.9/36209033 700 $aKeenleyside$b Heather$01720907 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910807739403321 996 $aAnimals and other people$94119985 997 $aUNINA