Fiction Without Humanity: Person, Animal, Thing in Early Enlightenment Literature and Culture

by Lynn Festa

Book Overview

Although the Enlightenment is often associated with the emergence of human rights and humanitarian sensibility, "humanity" is an elusive category in the literary, philosophical, scientific, and political writings of the period. Fiction Without Humanity offers a literary history of late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century efforts to define the human. Focusing on the shifting terms in which human difference from animals, things, and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812225058
• ISBN13: 9780812225051
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 364 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"