Homeless Dogs and Melancholy Apes: Humans and Other Animals in the Modern Literary Imagination by Laura Brown

Homeless Dogs and Melancholy Apes: Humans and Other Animals in the Modern Literary Imagination

Laura Brown

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nonfiction classics literary nature philosophy adventurous informative reflective slow-paced

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In eighteenth-century England, the encounter between humans and other animals took a singular turn with the discovery of the great apes and the rise of bourgeois pet keeping. These historical changes created a new cultural and intellectual context...

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