Fiction without humanity : person, animal, thing in early Enlightenment literature and culture /

Although the Enlightenment is often associated with the emergence of human rights and humanitarian sensibility, "humanity" is an elusive category in the literary, philosophical, scientific and political writings of the period. Fiction Without Humanity offers a literary history of late seve...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Festa, Lynn M. (Lynn Mary) (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2019]
Subjects:	English prose literature > 18th century > History and criticism. English prose literature > 17th century > History and criticism. Philosophical anthropology > Europe > History. Fictions, Theory of. Enlightenment > Europe. Anthropomorphism in literature. Humanity in literature.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
1. Bird's eye view
2. Lousy Bodies
3. Anthropomorphic things
4. Flea, fly, fable
5. Crusoe's Island of misfit things.