Homeless Dogs and Melancholy Apes: Humans and Other Animals in the Modern Literary Imagination

by Laura Brown

Book Overview

In eighteenth-century England, the encounter between humans and other animals took a singular turn with the discovery of the great apes and the rise of bourgeois pet keeping. These historical changes created a new cultural and intellectual context for the understanding and representation of animal-kind, and the nonhuman animal has thus played a significant role in imaginative literature from that period to the present day.

In Homeless...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080144828X
• ISBN13: 9780801448287
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher