The counterhuman imaginary : earthquakes, lapdogs, and traveling coinage in eighteenth-century literature /

The counterhuman imaginary : earthquakes, lapdogs, and traveling coinage in eighteenth-century literature / Laura Brown.

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"Studies works by Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, and Alexander Pope, as well as lapdog lyrics, circulation narratives, and the poetry of the Lisbon earthquake to discover the counterintuitive, "counterhuman" forces of the realms of the other-than-human that lie beyond the simple contro...

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Main Author: Brown, Laura, 1949- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, 2023.
Subjects:
1700-1799
English literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
Imagination in literature.
Human beings in literature.
Animals in literature.
Human-animal relationships in literature.
Littérature anglaise > 18e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Êtres humains dans la littérature.
Animaux dans la littérature.
Relations homme-animal dans la littérature.
English literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Literary criticism.
Critiques littéraires.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the counterhuman imaginary
  • Species intimacies: lapdogs and banknotes
  • Active matter, vital force: Newton and Defoe
  • The uncreation of the human: Pope's Dunciad
  • "When time shall end": poetry of the Lisbon earthquake
  • Storms and torrents: Swift's "A city shower" and Defoe's The storm
  • Coda: just beyond.

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