Perceiving Animals: Humans and Beasts in Early Modern English CultureSpringer, 2016 M04 30 - 232 páginas When we look at the human understanding of beasts in the past what we see are not only the foundations of our own perception of animals but humans contemplating their own status. Perceiving Animals argues that what is revealed in a wide range of writing from the early modern period is a recurring attempt to separate the human from the beast. Looking at the representation of the animal in law, religious writings, literary representation, science and political ideas, what emerges is a sense of the fragility of humanity, a sense of a species which always requires an external addition - property, civilisation, education, mastery of the natural world - to be fully human. Erica Fudge engages with both canonical and non-canonical texts from the period 1558-1649, and examines previously unchallenged aspects of the status of humanity: what does it mean to own an animal? How does civilisation take place, and what does this tell us about uncivilised man? What does the humanist emphasis on education mean for the uneducated? Does science ever offer humanity separation from the beast? Texts by writers including Edward Coke, Ben Jonson, Francis Bacon and Richard Overton are re-examined, and the status of humanity comes under question. Perceiving Animals argues that within early modern English culture there is an uncomfortable sense of humanity with a superiority which is not innate, but dangerously unnatural. |
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... sense speaking with the dead became impossible on two scores : animals do not speak my language , and they do not write , leave textual traces , other than the traces – vellum , leather , glue – which speak of their objectification . I ...
... sense speaking with the dead became impossible on two scores : animals do not speak my language , and they do not write , leave textual traces , other than the traces – vellum , leather , glue – which speak of their objectification . I ...
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... sense of animals as absent and yet present can be traced in a brief look at three poems from the early modern period . Ben Jonson's representation of the natural world in ' To Penshurst ' offers an image of unmitigated and unquestioned ...
... sense of animals as absent and yet present can be traced in a brief look at three poems from the early modern period . Ben Jonson's representation of the natural world in ' To Penshurst ' offers an image of unmitigated and unquestioned ...
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... sense of what an animal should be . For this reason the ideas voiced in ' To Penshurst ' , ' To Saxham ' and ' Providence ' are a part of this project . But the animals in these poems need also to be understood in another and more ...
... sense of what an animal should be . For this reason the ideas voiced in ' To Penshurst ' , ' To Saxham ' and ' Providence ' are a part of this project . But the animals in these poems need also to be understood in another and more ...
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... sense of the restricted nature of human vision can be traced in the work of Francis Bacon , as he writes in Novum Organum : it is a false assertion that the sense of man is the measure of things . On the contrary , all perceptions , as ...
... sense of the restricted nature of human vision can be traced in the work of Francis Bacon , as he writes in Novum Organum : it is a false assertion that the sense of man is the measure of things . On the contrary , all perceptions , as ...
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Contenido
The Creatures in the Bear Garden | 11 |
Animals | 34 |
The Humanist Interpretation | 64 |
Science Animal | 91 |
Knowing Animals and the Law | 115 |
The Bestialisation of Humanity and the Salvation | 143 |
Return to the Bear Garden | 167 |
Bibliography | 210 |
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Perceiving Animals: Humans and Beasts in Early Modern English Culture NA NA Sin vista previa disponible - 1999 |
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