Homeless dogs and melancholy apes : humans and other animals in the modern literary imagination

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-k...

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Main Author: Brown, Laura
Format: EBOOK
Language:ENGLISH
Published: Cornell University Press 2017
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