Human-animal interactions in the eighteenth century [electronic resource] : from pest and predators to pets, poems and philosophy / edited by Stefanie Stockhorst, Jürgen Overhoff, and Penelope J. Corfield.

"How did humans respond to the eighteenth-century discovery of countless new species of animals? This book explores the gamut of intense human-animal interactions: from love to cultural identifications, moral reflections, philosophical debates, classification systems, mechanical copies, insults and...

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