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Animal characters = nonhuman beings in earlymodern literature /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Animal characters/ Bruce Thomas Boehrer.
Reminder of title:	nonhuman beings in earlymodern literature /
Author:	Boehrer, Bruce Thomas.
Published:	Philadelphia :University of Pennsylvania Press, : c2010.,
Description:	1 online resource (238 p.) :ill. :
Subject:	Animals in art. -
Online resource:	Full text available:
ISBN:	9780812201369 (electronic bk.)

Animal characters = nonhuman beings in earlymodern literature /
Boehrer, Bruce Thomas.

Animal charactersnonhuman beings in earlymodern literature /[electronic resource] :Bruce Thomas Boehrer. - Philadelphia :University of Pennsylvania Press,c2010. - 1 online resource (238 p.) :ill. - Haney Foundation series. - Haney Foundation series..

Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-227) and index.

Introduction: animal studies and the problem of character -- Baiardo's legacy -- The cardinal's parrot -- Ecce feles -- The people's peacock -- "Vulgar sheepe" -- Conclusion: O blazing world.

"In Animal Characters Bruce Thomas Boehrer follows five species---the horse, the parrot, the cat, the turkey, and the sheep---through theirappearances in an eclectic mix of texts, from romancesand poetry to cookbooks and natural histories. He shows how dramatic changes in animalcharacter types between 1400 and 1700 relate to the emerging economy and culture of the European Renaissance. In early modern European culture, animals not only served humans as sources of labor, companionship, clothing, and food; these nonhuman creatures helped to form an understanding of personhood. Incorporating readings of Shakespeare's plays, Milton's Paradise Lost, Margaret Cavendish's Blazing World, andother works, Boehrer's series of animal character studies illuminates a fascinating period of change in interspecies relationships"--BOOK JACKET.

ISBN: 9780812201369 (electronic bk.)Subjects--Topical Terms:

570892
Animals in art.

LC Class. No.: PR149.A7 / B64 2010

Dewey Class. No.: 820.9/374

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520 1 $a "Our 2500-Year-Long Fascination with the World's Most Talkative BirdBruce Thomas Boehrer" ""As both a fiction writer and a lover of parrots, I was delighted and enlightened by Parrot Culture. This is an enchanting book."---Robert Olen Butler, author of A Good Scent from a StrangeMountain" ""Engrossing....Bruce Thomas Boehrer concentrates his well-stocked mind on what over the centuries we humans have done to, and donewith, parrots."---Times Literary Supplement" "During the Renaissance, horses---long considered the privileged, even sentient companions of knights-errant---gradually lost their special place on the field of battle and with it their distinctive status in the world of chivalric heroism. Parrots, once the miraculous, articulate companions of popes and emperors, declined into figures of mindless mimicry. Cats, which were tortured by Catholics in the Middle Ages, were tortured in the Reformation as part of the Protestant attack on Catholicism. And sheep, the model for Agnus Deiimagery, underwent transformations at once legal, material,and spiritual as a result of theirchanging role in Europe's growing manufacturing and trade economies. While in the Middle Ages, these nonhumans were endowed with privileged social associations, personal agency,even the ability to reason and speak, in the early modern period they lost these qualities at the very same time that a new emphasis on, and understanding of, human character was developing in European literature.".
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