Stockhorst, Stefanie
(ed.)
Overhoff, Jürgen
(ed.)
Corfield, Penelope J.
(ed.)
Editorial: Brill
Colección: Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 207
Número de páginas: 209 págs.
Fecha de edición: 16-12-2021
EAN: 9789004448728
ISBN: 978-90-04-44872-8
Precio (sin IVA): 75,00 €
Precio (IVA incluído): 78,00 €
How did humans respond to the eighteenth-century discovery of countless new species of animals? This book explores the gamut of intense human-animal interactions: from love to cultural identifications, moral reflections, philosophical debates, classification systems, mechanical copies, insults and literary creativity. Dogs, cats and horses, of course, play central roles. But this volume also features human reflections upon parrots, songbirds, monkeys, a rhino, an elephant, pigs, and geese – all the way through to the admired silkworms and the not-so-admired bookworms.