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Book SynopsisHow did humans respond to the eighteenth-century discovery of countless new species of animals? This book explores the gamut of intense human-animal interactions: from love to cultural identifications, moral reflections, philosophical debates, classification systems, mechanical copies, insults and literary creativity. Dogs, cats and horses, of course, play central roles. But this volume also features human reflections upon parrots, songbirds, monkeys, a rhino, an elephant, pigs, and geese – all the way through to the admired silkworms and the not-so-admired bookworms. An exceptionally wide array of source materials are used in this volume’s ten separate contributions, plus the editorial introduction, to demonstrate this diversity. As eighteenth-century humans came to realise that they too are animals, they had to recast their relationships with their fellow living-beings on Planet Earth. And these considerations remain very much live ones to this day.
Table of ContentsList of Figures Notes on Contributors / Notes sur les contributeurs 1 Editorial Introduction Animals from Pests and Predators to Companions and Cultural Markers Penelope J. Corfield, Stefanie Stockhorst and Jürgen Overhoff 2 Introduction des editeurs Les animaux : de ravageurs et de prédateurs à des compagnons et des repères culturels Penelope J. Corfield, Stefanie Stockhorst et Jürgen Overhoff 3 Human–Animal Relations in the Eighteenth Century Insights from Current Fields of Research Anna-Marie Humbert 4 Of Dogs and Horses Frederick the Great and His Dearest Animals Jürgen Overhoff 5 The Invention of the ‘Cheval-machine’ as a Medical Response to the Machine Paradigm of the Enlightenment Samuel Theodor Quellmaltz in Context Stefanie Stockhorst 6 « Les animaux, nos confrères » dans l’œuvre de Voltaire Halima Ouanada 7 On the Popularity of Songbirds in Eighteenth-Century German Fables Kristin Eichhorn 8 The Talking Parrot Brazilian National Symbol and Avatar of Human Identity for John Locke Antônio Carlos dos Santos 9 Troglodytes, the Monkey Diana and the Aping Swede – Carl Linnaeus on Apes Annika Windahl Pontén 10 Les vers à soie et les vers dévoreurs de livres dans une bibliothèque des Lumières luxe et morbidité des ‘insectes changeants’ dans la poésie de Voltaire Vanessa de Senarclens 11 Electoral Animals in Eighteenth-Century England Matthew O. Grenby and Kendra Packham 12 “For I Will Consider My Cat Jeoffry” Cats and Creativity in Eighteenth-Century Britain Penelope J. Corfield Index of Names / Index des noms Index of Non-Human Animals / Index des animaux non-humains
