The counterhuman imaginary earthquakes, lapdogs, and traveling coinage in eighteenth-century literature / Laura Brown.

Author/creator Brown, Laura, 1949-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoIthaca ; London : Cornell University Press, [2023]
Description146 pages ; 23 cm
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Contents Introduction: the counterhuman imaginary -- Species intimacies: lapdogs and banknotes -- Active matter, vital force: Newton and Defoe -- The uncreation of the human: Pope's Dunciad -- "When time shall end": poetry of the Lisbon earthquake -- Storms and torrents: Swift's "A city shower" and Defoe's The storm -- Coda: just beyond.
Abstract "Studies works by Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, and Alexander Pope, as well as lapdog lyrics, circulation narratives, and the poetry of the Lisbon earthquake to discover the counterintuitive, "counterhuman" forces of the realms of the other-than-human that lie beyond the simple control of the human imagination"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2023003313
ISBN9781501772559 (hardcover)
ISBN9781501773242 (paperback)
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