Humans and Other Animals ...

[Dave Monroe]

Palmieri, Frank, ed.  Humans and Other Animals
   in Eighteenth-Century British Culture:
   Representation, Hybridity, Ethics.
   Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2006.

Combining historical and interpretive work, this
collection examines changing perceptions of and
relations between human and nonhuman animals in
Britain over the long eighteenth century. Persistent
questions concern modes of representing animals and
animal-human hybrids, as well as the ethical issues
raised by the human uses of other animals. From the
animal men of Thomas Rowlandson to the part
animal-part human creature of Victor Frankenstein,
hybridity serves less as a metaphor than as a metonym
for the intersections of humans and other animals. The
contributors address such recurring questions as the
implications of the Enlightenment project of naming
and classifying animals, the equating of non-European
races and nonhuman animals in early ethnographic
texts, and the desire to distinguish the purely human
from the entirely nonhuman animal. Gulliver's Travels
and works by Mary and Percy Shelley emerge as key
texts for this study. The volume will be of interest
to scholars and students who work in animal, colonial,
gender, and cultural studies; and will appeal to
general readers concerned with the representation of
animals and their treatment by humans.


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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Note esp. the very last paper ...


 
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