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100	1		_aKeenleyside, Heather
245	1	0	_aAnimals and other people : _bliterary forms and living beings in the long eighteenth century
260			_aPhiladelphia _bPENN _c2016
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520			_aIn Animals and Other People, Heather Keenleyside argues for the central role of literary modes of knowledge in apprehending animal life. Keenleyside focuses on writers who populate their poetry, novels, and children's stories with conspicuously figurative animals, experiment with conventional genres like the beast fable, and write the "lives" of mice as well as men. From such writers—including James Thomson, Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, Laurence Sterne, Anna Letitia Barbauld, and others—she recovers a key insight about the representation of living beings: when we think and write about animals, we are never in the territory of strictly literal description, relying solely on the evidence of our senses. Indeed, any description of animals involves personification of a sort, if we understand personification not as a rhetorical ornament but as a fundamental part of our descriptive and conceptual repertoire, essential for distinguishing living beings from things.
650		0	_aAnimals in literature.
650		0	_aAnimals (Philosophy)
650		0	_aHuman-animal relationships in literature.
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