Human-Animal Interactions in the Eighteenth Century: From Pests and Predators to Pets, Poems and Philosophy

by Edited by Stefanie Stockhorst

How did humans respond to the eighteenth-century discovery of countless new species of animals? This book explores the gamut of intense human-animal interactions: from love to cultural identifications, moral reflections, philosophical debates, classification systems, mechanical copies, insults and literary creativity.

Dogs, cats and horses, of course, play central roles. But this volume also features human reflections upon parrots, songbirds,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004448721
• ISBN13: 9789004448728
• Release Date: December 2021
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 212 Pages