Homeless Dogs & Melancholy Apes: Humans and Other Animals in the Modern Literary Imagination
- ISBN-10
- 080144828X
- ISBN-13
- 9780801448287
- Category
- Literary Criticism
- Pages
- 178
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Author
- Laura Brown
Description
Brown shows how the literary works of the 18th century use animal-kind to bring abstract philosophical, ontological, and metaphysical questions into the realm of everyday experience, difference, hierarchy, intimacy, diversity, and transcendence.
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