| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Note |
Title from PDF title page (viewed on Dec. 5, 2012). |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The law's first subjects: animal stakeholders, human tyranny, and the political life of early modern genesis -- A cat may look upon a king: four-footed estate, locomotion, and the prerogative of free animals -- Poor, bare, forked: animal happiness and the zoographic critique of humanity -- Night-rule: the alternative politics of the dark; or, Empires of the nonhuman -- Hang-dog looks: from subjects at law to objects of science in animal trials. |
| Summary |
Shakespeare wrote of lions, shrews, horned toads, curs, mastifss, and hell-hounds. But he used the word 'animal' only eight times in his work - which was typical for the 16th century, when the word was rarely used. As Laurie Shannon reveals in this book, the animal-human divide first came strongly into play in the 17th century, with Descartes's famous formulation that reason sets humans above other species: 'I think, therefore I am'. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Animals in literature.
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Animals in literature. |
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Human-animal relationships in literature.
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Human-animal relationships in literature. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9780226924168 (OCoLC)783150295 |
| ISBN |
9780226924182 (electronic book) |
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0226924181 (electronic book) |
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9780226924168 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0226924165 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780226924175 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0226924173 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9781283833714 (MyiLibrary) |
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1283833719 (MyiLibrary) |
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