 | Homeless Dogs and Melancholy Apes: Humans and Other Animals in the Modern Literary Imagination Brown shows how the literary works of the 18th century use animal-kind to bring abstract philosophical, ontological, and metaphysical questions into the realm of everyday experience, difference, hierarchy, intimacy, diversity, and transcendence. Laura Brown is John Wendell Anderson Professor of English at Cornell University. She is the author of several books, including Fables of Modernity: Literature and Culture in the English Eighteenth Century and Ends of Empire: Women and Ideology in Early Eighteenth-Century English Literature , also from Cornell. |
