Humans and Other Animals in Eighteenth-century British Culture: Representation, Hybridity, Ethics

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Frank Palmeri
Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2006 - Literary Criticism - 217 pages
This collection examines changing perceptions of and relations between humans and nonhuman animals in Britain. As the contributors pose questions related to modes of representing animals and animal-human hybrids, Gulliver's Travels and works by Mary and Percy Shelley emerge as key texts. The volume will interest scholars, students, and general readers concerned with the representation of animals and ethical issues raised by the human uses of other animals.

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Contents

Gross Metempsychosis and Eastern Soul
13
Mixed Ethnicity
31
Gullivers Travels and Studies of Skin Color
49
Swift Locke and the Ethics
67
The Autocritique of Fables
83
Facing Other Animals
101
Science Art and Satire
119
Frankenstein as an Appeal to Mercy
137
From blind worms
153
Gulliver and the Lives of Animals
169
Bibliography
201
Index
215
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Professor Frank Palmeri is Professor of English at the University of Miami, and author of Satire in Narrative (1990) and Satire, History, Novel: Narrative Forms, 1665-1815 (2003).

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