{"product_id":"animals-and-other-people-9780812248579","title":"Animals and Other People","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDemonstrating the centrality of animals to an eighteenth-century literary and philosophical tradition, Animals and Other People argues for the importance of this tradition to current discussions of what life is and how we might live together.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Heather Keenleyside makes a significant contribution to ongoing discussions of the challenges involved in understanding the relationship between actual individual animals and the aesthetic, generic, rhetorical, and formal uses of animals in literature. With subtle, extended, and insightful critiques of well-chosen literary texts, her book provides a persuasive perspective on its key contribution, that 'rhetorical conventions make real world claims'-in other words, that real animals provide a direct point of reference for their literary representation.\" * Laura Brown, Cornell University *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction. Animals and Other Figures\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. The Person: Poetry, Personification, and the Composition of Domestic Society\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. The Creature: Domestic Politics and the Novelistic Character\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. The Human: Satire and the Naturalization of the Person\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. The Animal: The Life Narrative as a Form of Life\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. The Child: The Fabulous Animal and the Family Pet\u003cbr\u003e Coda. Growing Human\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Works Cited\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48737445511511,"sku":"9780812248579","price":56.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812248579.jpg?v=1723811204","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/animals-and-other-people-9780812248579","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}