TY  - BOOK
AU  - Boehrer,Bruce Thomas
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - Animal characters: nonhuman beings in early modern literature 
AV  - PR149.A7 B64 2010eb
U1  - 820.9/374 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Philadelphia
PB  - University of Pennsylvania Press
KW  - Animals in literature
KW  - Characters and characteristics in literature
KW  - English literature
KW  - Early modern, 1500-1700
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - European literature
KW  - Renaissance, 1450-1600
KW  - Symbolism in literature
KW  - Animals, Mythical, in literature
KW  - Animals in art
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - 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; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries
N2  - "Our 2500-Year-Long Fascination with the World's Most Talkative Bird Bruce 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 Strange Mountain" "'Engrossing ... Bruce Thomas Boehrer concentrates his well-stocked mind on what over the centuries we humans have done to, and done with, 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 their changing 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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