The animal claim : sensibility and the creaturely voice / Tobias Menely

Author:: Menely, Tobias
Published:: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2015.
Copyright Date:: ©2015
Physical Description:: vii, 267 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

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Contents:

Introduction -- 1. The significant voice : address and the animal sign -- 2. Creaturely origins : Enlightenment naturalism and the animal voice -- 3. The addressive animal : the Augustans and "tyrant custom" -- 4. Creaturely advocacy : poetic vocation in the age of sensibility -- 5. Sensibilities into statutes : animal rights and the afterlife of sensibility -- Afterword : The law and the factory.

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ISBN:

9780226239255 (cloth : alk. paper)
022623925X (cloth : alk. paper)
9780226239392 (pbk. : alk. paper)
022623939X (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-258) and index.

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