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Laura S. Brown 
The Counterhuman Imaginary 
Earthquakes, Lapdogs, and Traveling Coinage in Eighteenth-Century Literature

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The Counterhuman Imaginary proposes that alongside the historical, social, and institutional structures of human reality that seem to be the sole subject of the literary text, an other-than-human world is everywhere in evidence. Laura Brown finds that within eighteenth-century British literature, the human cultural imaginary can be seen, equally, as a counterhuman imaginary—an alternative realm whose scope and terms exceed human understanding or order.

Through close readings of works by Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, and Alexander Pope, along with lapdog lyrics, circulation narratives that give agency to inanimate objects like coins and carriages, and poetry about the Lisbon earthquake of 1755, Brown traces the ways presence and power of the nonhuman—weather, natural disasters, animals, even the concept of love—not only influence human creativity, subjectivity, and history but are inseparable from them. Traversing literary theory, animal studies, new materialism, ecocriticism, and affect theory, The Counterhuman Imaginary offers an original repudiation of the centrality of the human to advance an integrative new methodology for reading chaos, fluidity, force, and impossibility in literary culture.

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Laura Brown is the John Wendell Anderson Professor of English at Cornell University. She is the author of Fables of Modernity, Ends of Empire, Alexander Pope, English Dramatic Form, 1660–1750, and Homeless Dogs and Melancholy Apes.
Lingua Inglese ● Formato EPUB ● Pagine 162 ● ISBN 9781501772566 ● Dimensione 19.6 MB ● Casa editrice Cornell University Press ● Città Ithaca ● Paese US ● Pubblicato 2023 ● Scaricabile 24 mesi ● Moneta EUR ● ID 9151611 ● Protezione dalla copia Adobe DRM
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