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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... Truth : Corporeality and Power in Early Modern Culture ( Bath : Sulis Press , 1999 ) . Part of Chapter 2 appeared in ' Pocahontas ' Baptism : Reformed Theology and the Paradox of Desire ' , Critical Survey , 11/1 ( 1999 ) . Introduction ...
... Truth : Corporeality and Power in Early Modern Culture ( Bath : Sulis Press , 1999 ) . Part of Chapter 2 appeared in ' Pocahontas ' Baptism : Reformed Theology and the Paradox of Desire ' , Critical Survey , 11/1 ( 1999 ) . Introduction ...
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... truth about humans . They sink below the level of the beasts . This is where this reading of the Bear Garden as a place where being human is reinforced becomes problematic . The reading of what baiting might achieve which utilises ...
... truth about humans . They sink below the level of the beasts . This is where this reading of the Bear Garden as a place where being human is reinforced becomes problematic . The reading of what baiting might achieve which utilises ...
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Contenido
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 |
Index | 226 |
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