Accommodated Animal

Cosmopolity in Shakespearean Locales

Autor: Laurie Shannon

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Editura: The University of Chicago Press

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Shakespeare wrote of lions, shrews, horned toads, curs, mastiffs, and hell-hounds. But he used the w...

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Autor

Laurie Shannon

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Carte broșată

Publicat

2013

Pagini

304

EAN

9780226924175

ISBN

0226924173

Enbook ID

04550718

Editura

The University of Chicago Press

Greutate

450

Dimensiuni

162 x 228 x 19

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Shakespeare wrote of lions, shrews, horned toads, curs, mastiffs, and hell-hounds. But he used the word "animal" only eight times in his work - which was typical for the sixteenth century, when the word was rarely used. As Laurie Shannon reveals in "The Accommodated Animal", the animal-human divide first came strongly into play in the seventeenth century, with Descartes' famous formulation that reason sets humans above other species: "I think, therefore I am." Before that moment, animals could claim a firmer place alongside humans in a larger vision of belonging, or what Shannon terms cosmopolity. With Shakespeare as her touch-stone, Shannon explores the creaturely dispensation that existed until Descartes. She finds that early modern writers used classical natural history and readings of "Genesis" to credit animals with various kinds of stakeholdership, prerogative, and entitlement, employing the language of politics in a constitutional vision of cosmic membership. Using this political idiom to frame cross-species relations, Shannon argues, carried with it the notion that animals possess their own investments in the world, a point distinct from the question of whether animals have reason. It also enabled a sharp critique of the tyranny of humankind. By answering "the question of the animal" historically, "The Accommodated Animal" makes a brilliant contribution to cross-disciplinary debates engaging political theory, intellectual history, and literary studies.

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