Perceiving Animals: Humans and Beasts in Early Modern English Culture

ISBN-13: 9781349624171 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 232 str.

Erica Fudge; Na Na

Opis

Looking at the representation of the animal in law, religious writings, literary representation, science and political ideas, what emerges is a sense of the fragility of humanity, a sense of a species which always requires an external addition - property, civilisation, education, mastery of the natural world - to be fully human.