Animal studies and the eighteenth century

The nature of the beast

Bibliographic Data

ID12879795
AuthorsLucinda Cole (0000-0002-2834-0491, University of Illinois System, corresponding author)
Year2019
Volume16
Issue6
Publication date2019-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLiterature Compass (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1741-4113 • E-ISSN: 1741-4113
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/lic3.12536
OpenAlexW2780762161
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited34

This essay offers an overview of important historical and theoretical issues in animal studies scholarship on the long eighteenth century, 1660–1750. It draws connections among the theological, social, and ontological debates of the early modern period and discusses how these debates helped to shape current questions in posthumanist and animal studies research. Recent works in animal studies about the eighteenth century explore anthropocentrism and the human–animal divide; sensibility and anti‐cruelty legislation; thing theory and personhood; and literary subjectivity in the broader context of more‐than‐human ecologies

Aesthetics · Anthropocentrism · Art · Context (archaeology · Cruelty · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Literature · Personhood · Political science · Scholarship · Sensibility · Sociology · Subjectivity · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · Law · Moravian Church and William Blake · Philosophy

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