The Animal Claim
Subtitle: Sensibility and the Creaturely Voice
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: Apr 06, 2015
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780226239392
Description: During the 18th century, some of the most popular British poetry showed a responsiveness to animals that anticipated the later language of animal rights. Such poems were widely cited in later years by legislators advocating animal welfare laws like Martin's Act of 1822, which provided protections for livestock. In 'The Animal Claim', Tobias Menely links the poetics of sensibility with Enlightenment political philosophy, the rise of the humanitarian public, and the fate of sentimentality, as well as longstanding theoretical questions about voice as a medium of communication.
Notes: Source title: The Animal Claim: Sensibility and the Creaturely Voice