Perceiving Animals: Humans and Beasts in Early Modern English Culture

by Erica Fudge

Book Overview

The boundaries between human and beast forged a rugged philosophical landscape across early modern England. Spectators gathered in London's Bear Garden to watch the callous and brutal baiting of animals. A wave of "new" scientists performed vivisections on live animals to learn more about the human body.

In Perceiving Animals, the British scholar Erica Fudge traces the dangers and problems of anthropocentrism in texts written from...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252070682
• ISBN13: 9780252070686
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.6"