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The Counterhuman Imaginary : Earthquakes, Lapdogs, and Traveling Coinage in Eighteenth-Century Literature
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Title
The Counterhuman Imaginary : Earthquakes, Lapdogs, and Traveling Coinage in Eighteenth-Century Literature / Laura Brown.
ISBN
9781501772573
9781501773242
9781501772559
9781501772566
Publication
Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2023.
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2023
Copyright Notice Date
©2023.
Physical Description
1 online resource (162 pages).
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Summary
"Studies works by Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, and Alexander Pope, as well as lapdog lyrics, circulation narratives, and the poetry of the Lisbon earthquake to discover the counterintuitive, "counterhuman" forces of the realms of the other-than-human that lie beyond the simple control of the human imagination"-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE complete collection 2023.
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Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 20, 2023
Contents
Introduction: the counterhuman imaginary
Species intimacies: lapdogs and banknotes
Active matter, vital force: Newton and Defoe
The uncreation of the human: Pope's Dunciad
"When time shall end": poetry of the Lisbon earthquake
Storms and torrents: Swift's "A city shower" and Defoe's The storm
Coda: just beyond.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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