The Accommodated Animal Cosmopolity in Shakespearean Locales
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Shakespeare wrote of lions, shrews, horned toads, curs, mastiffs, and hellhounds. But the word "animal" itself only appears very rarely in his work, which was in keeping with sixteenth-century usage. As Laurie Shannon reveals in The Accommodated Animal, the modern human / animal divide first came strongly into play in the seventeenth century, with Descartes's famous formulation that reason sets humans above other species: "I think, therefore I am." Before that moment, animals could claim a firmer place alongside humans in a larger vision of belonging, or what she terms cosmopolity.
Book information
ISBN: | 9780226924175 |
Publisher: | University of Chicago Press |
Imprint: | The University of Chicago Press |
Pub date: | 04 Jan 2013 |
DEWEY: | 822.33 |
DEWEY edition: | 23 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 304 |
Weight: | 450g |
Height: | 228mm |
Width: | 162mm |
Spine width: | 19mm |