Animals and humans sensibility and representation, 1650-1820 Quinsey, Katherine M. 1955- editor. text bibliography Electronic books. History. enk 2017 2017 monographic eng access remote 1 online resource (x, 323 pages) : illustrations "European culture in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries witnessed a radical redefinition of 'humanity' and its place in the environment, together with a new understanding of animals and their relation to humans. In examining the dynamics of animal-human relations as embodied in the literature, art, farming practices, natural history, religion and philosophy of this period, leading experts explore the roots of much current thinking on interspecies morality and animal welfare. The animal-human relationship challenged not only disciplinary boundaries--between poetry and science, art and animal husbandry, natural history and fiction--but also the basic assumptions of human intellectual and cultural activity, expression, and self-perception. This is specifically apparent in the re-evaluation of sentiment and sensibility, which constitutes a major theme of this chronologically organised volume. Authors engage with contemporary reactions to the commodification of animals during the period of British imperialism, tracing how eighteenth-century ecological consciousness and notions of animal identity and welfare emerged from earlier, traditional models of the cosmos, and reassessing late eighteenth-century poetic representations of the sentimental encounter with the animal other. They show how human experience was no longer viewed as an iterative process but as one continually shaped by the other. In concluding chapters authors highlight the political resonances of the animal-human relationship as it was used both to represent and to redress the injustices between humans as well as between humans and animals. Through a multi-faceted study of eighteenth-century European culture, authors reveal how the animal presence--both real and imagined--forces a different reading not only of texts but also of society."--Page 4 of cover Introduction / Katherine M. Quinsey -- Edmund Waller's whales : marine mammals and animal heroism in the early Atlantic / Ann A. Huse -- Guns, ivory and elephant graveyards : the biopolitics of elephants' teeth / Lucinda Cole -- Animals and natural history in eighteenth-century France / Anita Guerrini -- 'A hollow Moan' : the contours of the non-human world in James Thomson's The seasons / Denys Van Renen -- The great chain of being as an ecological idea / James P. Carson -- John Aikin, Joseph Addison and two eighteenth-century Eastern tales of remembered metempsychosis / Kathryn Ready -- 'Little lives in air' : animal sentience and sensibility in Pope / Katherine M. Quinsey -- 'No, helpless thing' : interspecies intimacy in the poetry of Burns and Barbauld / Rachel Swinkin -- Thomas Gainsborough's sensible animals / Sarah R. Cohen -- Animal actors : literary pedigrees and bloodlines in eighteenth-century animal breeding / Anne Milne -- 'An egg dropped on the sand' : the natural history of female bastardy from Mark Catesby to Mary Wollstonecraft / Irene Fizer -- Animals and the country-house tradition in Mary Leapor's 'Crumble Hall' and Jane Austen's Mansfield Park / Barbara K. Seeber. edited by Katherine M. Quinsey. Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL digitized 2021. HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-319) and index. Human-animal relationships History 17th century Human-animal relationships History 18th century Relations homme-animal Histoire 17e siècle Relations homme-animal Histoire 18e siècle Human-animal relationships Human-animal relationships History 17th century Human-animal relationships History 18th century 1600-1799 fast QL85 .A533 2017 PQ2105 T77 179.3 Animals and humans Oxford, UK : Voltaire Foundation, [2017] (DLC) 2017380247 (OCoLC)982175811 Oxford University studies in the Enlightenment ; 2017:04 9780729411936 0729411931 http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login?url=https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.3828/9780729411936 OCLCE 210317 20240904140320.2 in00005469446 eng