Perceiving animals : humans and beasts in early modern English culture
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Perceiving animals : humans and beasts in early modern English culture
Macmillan , St. Martin's Press, 1999
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: us ISBN 9780312225728
内容説明
When we look at the human understanding of beasts in the past what we see are not only the foundations of our own perception of animals but humans contemplating their own status. Perceiving Animals argues that what is revealed in a wide range of writing from the early modern period is a recurring attempt to separate the human from the beast. Looking at the representation of the animal in law, religious writings, literary representation, science and political ideas, what emerges is a sense of the fragility of humanity, a sense of a species which always requires an external addition - property, civilisation, education, mastery of the natural world - to be fully human.
Erica Fudge engages with both canonical and non-canonical texts from the period 1558-1649, and examines previously unchallenged aspects of the status of humanity: what does it mean to own an animal? How does civilisation take place, and what does this tell us about uncivilised man? What does the humanist emphasis on education mean for the uneducated? Does science ever offer humanity separation from the beast? Texts by writers including Edward Coke, Ben Jonson, Francis Bacon and Richard Overton are re-examined, and the status of humanity comes under question. Perceiving Animals argues that within early modern English culture there is an uncomfortable sense of humanity with a superiority which is not innate, but dangerously unnatural.
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: uk ISBN 9780333728123
内容説明
Revealing the beast at the heart of English culture, this analysis moves from the Elizabethan Bear Garden to the political upheavals of the 1640s. Engaging with the ideas of William Perkins, Sir Philip Sidney, Ben Jonson, Francis Bacon, Edward Coke and Richard Overton, it highlights the place of animals in early modern perceptions of what it is to be human, and considers the current reconfigurations of our own species.
目次
List of Illustrations - Introduction: The Dangers of Anthropocentrism - Screaming Monkeys: The Creatures in the Bear Garden - Wild Beasts Making Havoc of the Soul: Animals, Humans and Religion - Judging Like a Malt-Horse: The Humanist Interpretation of Humanity - Seeing All Their Insides: Science, Animal Experimentation and Aesop - The Shape of a Man: Knowing Animals and the Law - The Bestialisation of Humanity and the Salvation of the Beast: The Politics of the Animal Soul - Epilogue: Return to the Bear Garden - Bibliography - Index
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