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""In this delicate and sophisticated book, Laura Brown ... seeks to restore lost or neglected dimensions of the interplay between animal and human. She focuses on representations of apes, pet monkeys, and lapdogs, and finally turns her attention to fictions narrated by dogs-a Cervantean tradition that has prospered, thanks lately to Paul Auster and Andrew O' Hagan, into the present... Apes, though impugned sometimes as rapists, were also credited with the most delicate sensitivities, including modesty, honor, and justice, and Brown captures the excitement of their gradual discovery through the imaginative flights that attended it.""-Jennie Erin Smith, Times Literary Supplement, 26 November 2010 ""I read Homeless Dogs and Melancholy Apes with great eagerness and found it to be a book of compelling interest, wonderful erudition, and nuanced, sophisticated analysis. It brings innovative perspectives and contexts to bear on core eighteenth-century topics and texts. Laura Brown takes up a leading concern in contemporary cultural studies-human-animal relations-and shows how modernity's paradigms of difference and alterity were articulated in the eighteenth century in ways sharply continuous with our own.""-Erin Mackie, Syracuse University ""Homeless Dogs and Melancholy Apes engages with the long-standing conversation about otherness and also with the more recent and very lively conversation among humanists about animals. Laura Brown's work enhances understanding of how an important facet of eighteenth-century culture influenced and was incorporated into eighteenth-century literature.""-Harriet Ritvo, Arthur J. Conner Professor of History, MIT

In this delicate and sophisticated book, Laura Brown ... seeks to restore lost or neglected dimensions of the interplay between animal and human. She focuses on representations of apes, pet monkeys, and lapdogs, and finally turns her attention to fictions narrated by dogs-a Cervantean tradition that has prospered, thanks lately to Paul Auster and Andrew O' Hagan, into the present... Apes, though impugned sometimes as rapists, were also credited with the most delicate sensitivities, including modesty, honor, and justice, and Brown captures the excitement of their gradual discovery through the imaginative flights that attended it. -Jennie Erin Smith, Times Literary Supplement, 26 November 2010 I read Homeless Dogs and Melancholy Apes with great eagerness and found it to be a book of compelling interest, wonderful erudition, and nuanced, sophisticated analysis. It brings innovative perspectives and contexts to bear on core eighteenth-century topics and texts. Laura Brown takes up a leading concern in contemporary cultural studies-human-animal relations-and shows how modernity's paradigms of difference and alterity were articulated in the eighteenth century in ways sharply continuous with our own. -Erin Mackie, Syracuse University Homeless Dogs and Melancholy Apes engages with the long-standing conversation about otherness and also with the more recent and very lively conversation among humanists about animals. Laura Brown's work enhances understanding of how an important facet of eighteenth-century culture influenced and was incorporated into eighteenth-century literature. -Harriet Ritvo, Arthur J. Conner Professor of History, MIT

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Laura Brown is John Wendell Anderson Professor of English at Cornell University. She is the author of several books, including Homeless Dogs and Melancholy Apes: Humans and Other Animals in the Modern Literary Imagination,Fables of Modernity: Literature and Culture in the English Eighteenth Century and Ends of Empire: Women and Ideology in Early Eighteenth-Century English Literature, all from Cornell.

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