Fiction Without Humanity: Person, Animal, Thing In Early Enlightenment Literature And Culture

Drawing on the estranging perspectives of nonhuman creatures and inanimate things in riddles, fables, novels, scientific treatises, and trompe l'oeil and still-life painting, Fiction Without Humanity offers a literary history of late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century efforts to define the human.

• | Author: Lynn Festa
• | Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• | Publication Date: 3-Sep-21
• | Number of Pages: 364 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0812225058
• | ISBN-13: 9780812225051