The Counterhuman Imaginary - Laura Brown - 書籍 - Cornell University Press - 9781501773242 - 2023年11月15日
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The Counterhuman Imaginary


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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.


162 pages, 5 Halftones, black and white

メディア 書籍     Book
リリース済み 2023年11月15日
ISBN13 9781501773242
出版社 Cornell University Press
ページ数 162
寸法 150 × 220 × 20 mm   ·   250 g   (重量(概算))

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