The Counterhuman Imaginary: Earthquakes, Lapdogs, and Traveling Coinage in Eighteenth-Century Literature

The Counterhuman Imaginary -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Counterhuman Imaginary -- 1. Species Intimacies: Lapdogs and Banknotes -- 2. Active Matter, Vital Force: Newton and Defoe -- 3. The Uncreation of the Human: Pope's Dunciad -- 4. "When Time Shall End": Poetr...

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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Ithaca Cornell University Press 2023
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Zusammenfassung:The Counterhuman Imaginary -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Counterhuman Imaginary -- 1. Species Intimacies: Lapdogs and Banknotes -- 2. Active Matter, Vital Force: Newton and Defoe -- 3. The Uncreation of the Human: Pope's Dunciad -- 4. "When Time Shall End": Poetry of the Lisbon Earthquake -- 5. Storms and Torrents: Swift's "A City Shower" and Defoe's The Storm -- Coda: Just Beyond -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
"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"--
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ISBN:9781501772573
DOI:10.1515/9781501772573

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