INDEX

Page numbers followed by letter f refer to figures.

Addison, Joseph: circulation narrative by, 27; Spectator, 113–14
Adorno, Theodore, notion of das Krug, 54, 55
Adventures of a Black Coat, The (Philips), 32
Aeneid (Virgil), and Swift’s “A City Shower,” 117–18, 129
affect: human, dog-protagonist’s ability to penetrate, 35; matter and, integration in circulation narrative, 29–34; new definition based on multiplicity and immeasurability, 43–44, 107; pets and alternative opportunities for experience of, 26–27. See also intimacy
affective convergence, in circulation narrative, 32–34
affective turn, as corollary to counterhuman imaginary, 10–11, 24
affect theory, 10–11; counterhuman imaginary and, 17, 19; vs. history of emotion, 10n17; and lapdog lyric, 25
agency/vitality of matter: Bennett on, 6, 67, 73, 86–87; in circulation narrative, 24, 27–29, 31–32; counterhuman imaginary and, 14, 19, 87; in Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, 19–20, 52–53, 60–66, 107, 128, 131; human creativity and access to, 5–6, 85–87; idea of, 5–6; Newton on, 19–20, 28–29, 56–59, 128; in Pope’s Dunciad, 75–81, 85, 128; posthumanism on, 15; in Swift’s “A City Shower,” 128–29, 131; unique literary access to, 6–7, 16. See also thinking matter
agential realism, 72
Ahern, Stephen, 10–11
alchemy, Newton’s study of, 57
Althusser, Louis, 8, 14
“Anecdote of the Jar” (Stevens), 55n21
animal(s): changes in relationship with humans, eighteenth-century, 26; souls of, debate about, 37, 38n19. See also pet(s)
Animal Claim, The (Menely), 2, 85–86
animal-protagonist, in circulation narrative, 34–37
Animals and Other People (Keenleyside), 2–3
animal studies, literary, 1–3, 16; counterhuman imaginary and, 17; on human agency, role of, 85–86; Pope’s Dunciad and, 87
Anker, Elizabeth S., 13–14
antihumanism, 15
apocalypse: earthquake poetry and visions of, 91–92, 98, 103, 106; in Pope’s Dunciad, 21, 80, 87. See also chaos
Aristotle, Meteorologics, 98
assemblage(s): affective, 11; in Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, 50, 63–66; in Defoe’s Storm, 124; in earthquake poetry, 102–4; Heidegger’s das Krug and, 54; in Pope’s Dunciad, 20, 72, 74, 81–85, 104; in Swift’s “A City Shower,” 123, 128. See also multiplicity
atomism: notions of discontinuity, multiplicity, and contingency in, 124, 125; and Pope’s Dunciad, 74–75; relevance to modern thought, 73–74

Baird, Ileana, 48
Barad, Karen, 72
Baxter, Andrew, 59
benevolence of providence: Pope’s assertion of, 99; Voltaire’s refutation of, 100–101, 108
Bennett, Jane: on thing-power, 48, 86–87; Vibrant Matter, 6, 67, 73, 86–87
Bergson, Henri, 73
Berkeley, George, 59
Best, Stephen, 133
Biddulph, John, Poem on the Earthquake at Lisbon, 92, 96, 102, 103–5
biopolitics, 4–5
blazon anatomique, 39
Bloch, Ernst, notion of das Krug, 54, 55
book(s): materialization of humans into, in Pope’s Dunciad, 78–79. See also literature
boundary-crossing, counterhuman, 14, 29–30, 36. See also cross-species inclusivity
Boyer, Abel, 77
Braidotti, Rosi, 14, 15
Braun, Theodore E. D., 93
Breval, John, 78
Brown, Bill, 12–13, 53–54
Brown, George, 79
Brown, Thomas, “On a Lap-Dog,” 41
Buescu, Helena Carvalhāo, 97, 98
Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de, 98
Burnet, Bishop, 115

Candide; or, Optimism (Voltaire), 100–101
capitalism, development of: and circulation narrative, 25–26; Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe on, 50–52, 61–62; Pope’s Dunciad on, 88
Carey, Henry, “The Rival Lap-Dog,” 42
Castoriadis, Cornelius, 8–9, 14, 87, 132
Centlivre, Susanna, 77
chaos: counterhuman and, 19, 20–21; in earthquake poetry, 20, 107–9; in physics, 73–74, 124–25; in Pope’s Dunciad, 20–21, 74, 81–85, 87, 88, 104, 107, 108, 109. See also multiplicity
Cheyne, George, 59
Chico, Tita, 66
Chrystal; or, The Adventures of a Guinea (Johnstone), 29–32
Cibber, Colley, 71
circulation, as defining quality of things, 48
circulation narrative(s), 23–24, 25–26; affective convergence of other-than-human and human in, 32–34; animal-protagonist in, 34–37; contemporary discussions of species difference and, 37–38; cross-species intimacy in, 33, 37, 38–39; as experiment in materialist form, 43; integration of matter and affect in, 29–32; and lapdog lyric, contiguity between, 23–24, 26, 34–35, 38, 39, 43; multiplicity in, 107; new materialism and, 25; Newton’s theory of gravitation and, 28–29; radical interrelationality in, 11, 19, 131–32; thing-protagonist in, 19, 24–25, 27–34
“City Shower, A” (Swift), 21, 116–17; experience of counterhuman interrelationality in, 123; force/vitality in, 128–29, 131; human assertion of authority in, 111, 112; Virgil’s Aeneid and, 117–18, 129; voice of the storm in, 129; weather used to understand human being in, 113
Clarke, Richard, “On an Earthquake,” 103, 106
Clarke, Samuel, 59
Clayton, Robert, 59
climate: counterhuman experience of, 127–28; human character traits associated with, 113–15; impossibility of human representation of, evocation of, 21, 120, 121–23, 126, 127–28. See also environmental events; weather
Climate and the Making of Worlds (Menely), 5, 133
climate change, and symptomatic reading practices, 133
coin: as protagonist of circulation narrative, 27–32, 34–35. See also specie
Collins, Anthony, 59
commonality, imputed: and claims for human access to other-than-human, 1–2, 7. See also cross-species inclusivity
Conrad, Joseph, 134
consumer society, and circulation narrative, 25–26
Coole, Diana, 7, 48, 72n2
Copeland, Marion W., 1–2, 7
cosmological criticism, proposal for, 5, 134
Coubert, Gustave, Femme nue au chien, 22f
counterhuman imaginary: affective turn as corollary to, 10–11, 24; and affect theory, 17, 19; and agency/vitality of matter, 14, 19, 87; concept of, 7–9; cosmological criticism and, 5, 135; cultural imaginary and, 17–18, 87, 130, 131–32; embedded in human creativity, 12–13, 21; environmental and geological events and, 16, 18; and intimacy, reimagining of, 18–19, 44; and literary criticism, 14; and literary innovation, 9–11, 17–21, 23, 24, 27, 67, 131–32; methodology for analysis of, Pope’s Dunciad and, 20, 88–89; multiplicity as feature of, 19, 20, 107, 109; and posthuman perspectives, 16–17, 18; relationality/interrelationality associated with, 7, 18
Coventry, Francis, The History of Pompey the Little, or the Life and Adventures of a Lapdog, 34, 35–37
Crébillon, Claude, The Sopha, 32
critique: as genre, 13. See also literary criticism
cross-species inclusivity: counterhuman imaginary and, 14; storytelling and, 1–2, 7
cross-species intimacy: in circulation narratives, 33, 37, 38–39; dogs and, 26–27; in lapdog lyric, 19, 39–43; and new definition of affect, 43–44, 107; new forms of, eighteenth-century developments and, 26; representation in art, 22f
Culler, Jonathan, 14
cultural imaginary: Althusserian/Castoriadian theory of, 8–9, 14; climate presented by, 129–30; counterhuman permeating, literary works and, 17–18, 87, 130, 131–32; earthquake presented by, 98, 106–7; and human representation of other-than-human, 7–9, 14, 16; and symptomatic reading, 132

“Debris” (Bennett), 86–87
Defoe, Benjamin Norton, 77–78
Defoe, Daniel: on agency of matter, 19–20; iconic materialist vision of, 55. See also Robinson Crusoe; Storm, The
Deleuze, Gilles, 73
Dennis, John, 78
Descartes, René, 38, 59
“Description of a City Shower, A” (Swift). See “City Shower, A” (Swift)
disaster discourse: tropes of, 20, 96–98, 100, 102, 106–7. See also earthquake(s)
dog(s): intimacy associated with, 26–27; as protagonist of circulation narrative, 34–37. See also lapdog lyric
Dolphijn, Rick, 6, 7
Donne, John, “The Flea,” 39
Douglas, Aileen, 25
Drake, David, Jar, 46f
Drew, Erin, 3–4
Duffy, Edna, 5, 133–34
Dulness, in Pope’s Dunciad: chaos associated with, 81; collections of books associated with, 79; force of, 77, 79–81, 128; as parodic manifestation of Britannia, 88
Dunciad, The (Pope), 71–89; atomism and, 74–75; chaos in, 20–21, 81–85, 87, 88, 104, 107, 108, 109; counterhuman imaginary and, 21, 74–75, 85; earthquake poetry compared to, 102, 104, 108–9; engagement with human creativity in, 71–72; force inherent in matter in, representation of, 75–81, 85, 128; gravitational force explored in, 20, 75–77, 79, 80, 85, 88; illustration from, 70f; on institutions of modern capitalism, 88; and methodology for analysis of counterhuman imaginary, 20, 88–89; multiplicity in, 104, 107; nonhierarchic, antianthropocentric relationality in, 81–85, 87, 107, 124; other-than-human realms in, 20, 72, 87; other-than-human vitality in, 131; “uncreating” activity of, implications of, 21, 87

earthquake(s): Aristotelian pneumatic theory of, 98; connection with apocalypse, 91–92, 98, 103, 106; conventional images in writing about, 96–98; human cultural imaginary on, 98, 106–7; in London (1750), 95; as other-than-human geologic event, 107; scientific explanation of, eighteenth-century, 98–99. See also Lisbon earthquake of 1755
ecocriticism, 1, 3–5; counterhuman imaginary and, 17
economics/economic forces: in circulation narrative, 24–29, 31–32; counterhuman imaginary and, 67; Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe as reflection on, 50–52, 61–62; Pope’s Dunciad as reflection on, 88
Ellenzweig, Sarah, 86
empirical scientific method, counterhuman imaginary and, 67
energy: in Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, 60–66, 107; of exchange, specie and, 24, 27–28; in Newton’s representations of matter, 56; of other-than-human, 19; in Pope’s Dunciad, 76, 79. See also agency/vitality; force(s)
English literature, eighteenth-century: conventional understanding of, 18; innovation in, counterhuman imaginary and, 9–11, 17–21, 23, 24, 27, 67, 131–32. See also specific authors and titles
Enlightenment thought: impact of Lisbon earthquake on, 99–102; materialism in, 38
enumeration, tropes of: in depiction of nature/storms, 116, 126–27; in earthquake poetry, 102–4. See also multiplicity
environmental criticism, 3–5, 16
environmental events: and advances in science, 98, 119; divine power associated with, 122; self-organizing efficacy of, 16. See also storm(s)
environmental events/forces, representation in literature, 3–5; human assertions of authority in, 111–12; impossibility of description evoked in, 21, 120, 121–23, 126, 127–28; other-than-human uncertainty in, 112–13; in Pope’s Dunciad, 79–80; tropes of enumeration used in, 116, 126–27; in Voltaire’s Candide, 100. See also “A City Shower” (Swift); The Storm (Defoe)
“Episode Taken from a Poem on the Earthquake at Lisbon, An” (Kett), 96–97
“Epitaph upon my Lady M—-’s Lapdog, An,” 40
Essay concerning Human Understanding (Locke), 28
Essay on Man, The (Pope), 75, 99
exchange: economic, circulation narrative and, 24, 27–29, 31–32; proposal for, in lapdog lyric, 41
exchangeability, as defining quality of things, 48
experiential learning/reasoning: Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe and, 50, 60; Newton and, 59
experimental imagination, study of, 66
experimental method: in Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, 63, 66; Newton’s commitment to, 59–60, 66

Falconer, William, 114
Felski, Rita, 13–14, 133
Ferrando, Francesca, 15–16
Festa, Lynn, 11–12, 65
Fiction without Humanity (Festa), 11–12
Fielding, Henry, 52
Finch, Anne, “Upon the Hurricane,” 122n22, 127
“Flea, The” (Donne), 39
force(s), of matter: in Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, 19–20, 52–53, 60–62, 64–66, 107, 128; new materialism on, 48; Newton on, 19, 28–29, 56–59, 128; in Pope’s Dunciad, 75–81, 85, 128; in Swift’s “A City Shower,” 128–29. See also agency/vitality of matter; gravitation/gravitational force
Frost, Samantha, 7, 48, 72n2

geohistorical contradiction, 5, 135
geohistorical criticism, 1, 3–5, 16
geohistorical poetics, 133
geologic events/forces: and counterhuman imaginary, 16, 18; and Pope’s Dunciad, 79–80; representation in literature, 3–4, 20; self-organizing efficacy of, 16; and Voltaire’s Candide, 100, 101. See also earthquake(s)
Gildon, Charles, 28–29
Golden Spy, The (Gildon), 28–29
gravitation/gravitational force: circulation narrative and engagement with, 28–29; Newton’s conceptualization of, 19, 28, 49, 55, 56–59; Pope’s Dunciad and engagement with, 20, 75–77, 79, 80, 85, 88
great storm of 1703, 18; and advances in meteorology, 98, 119. See also Storm, The (Defoe)
Grusin, Richard, 6

Hamblyn, Richard, 119
Hartley, David, 59
Heidegger, Martin, notion of das Krug, 53–54, 55, 63, 65
Hewitt, John, “Upon Cælia’s having a little Dog in her Lap,” 42
History and Adventures of a Lady’s Slippers and Shoes, The, 32
History and description of the most remarkable events relative to the earthquake that shook a great part of the earth at the end of the year 1755 (Kant), 98
History of Pompey the Little, or the Life and Adventures of a Lapdog, The (Coventry), 34, 35–37; and link to lapdog lyric, 38–39
Homer, Pope’s Dunciad and, 71
Hultquist, Aleksondra, 10n17
human creativity: counterhuman imaginary embedded in, 12–13, 21; intrusion of other-than-human and, 21, 131–32; and vitality of matter, access to, 5–6, 85–87
humanitarianism, rise of, 38
Hume, David: engagement with Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, 50; “Of National Characters,” 114; in theological debate on powers of matter, 59
Hymns occasioned by the Earthquake (Wesley), 91, 94, 95, 105–6
hyperhumanism, 15

ideology, Althusserian notion of, 8
individualist protagonist, primacy in eighteenth-century English literature, 18
innovation, literary: in circulation narrative and lapdog lyric, 38–39, 43–44; counterhuman imaginary and, 9–11, 17–21, 23, 24, 27, 67, 131–32
interrelationality. See relationality/interrelationality
intimacy: counterhuman imaginary and reimagining of ideas about, 18–19, 44. See also cross-species intimacy
intuitive knowledge, thing-protagonist and, 30, 32
Ionescu, Christina, 48
irony: in lapdog lyric, 39. See also satire
it-narratives, 23, 48. See also circulation narrative(s)

Jameson, Fredric, 5, 132, 133–34
jar/pot: in art, 46f; in Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, 52–53, 53n16, 63–64, 66; as form of knowledge and imagination, 68; Heidegger’s conceptualization of, 53–54, 55, 63, 65; as heuristic for modernity’s theorization of materialism, 54–55; in poetry, 55n21
Johnstone, Charles, Chrystal; or, The Adventures of a Guinea, 29–32
journalism, modern, Defoe’s Storm as pioneering work of, 118–19
just beyond, methodological challenge of, approaches to, 132–34

Kant, Immanuel, History and description of the most remarkable events relative to the earthquake that shook a great part of the earth at the end of the year 1755, 98
Keenleyside, Heather, 2–3, 85
Kett, Henry, “An Episode Taken from a Poem on the Earthquake at Lisbon,” 96–97
Kinsley, William, 75
knowledge, intuitive, thing-protagonist and, 30, 32
das Krug, Heidegger’s conceptualization of, 53–54, 55, 63, 65

labor theory of value, Robinson Crusoe and conceptualization of, 51
Lamb, Jonathan, The Things Things Say, 47–48
“Lap-Dog, The” (Thompson), 40, 41
lapdog lyric, 23–24, 38–43; affect theory and, 25; and circulation narrative, contiguity between, 23–24, 26, 34–35, 38, 39, 43; cross-species intimacy in, 19, 39–43; female sexuality evoked in, 39–43; historical transformations and, 26; irony and satire in, 39; multiplicity in, 107; ontological instability generated by, 39, 41–42; problematic of, 39; radical interrelationality in, 11, 19, 131–32; transposition/transformation as theme of, 41–43
Latour, Bruno, 73
Law, William, 77
Le Bas, Jacques-Philippe, illustration of Lisbon earthquake, 90f
Lettre à M. de Voltaire (Rousseau), 101–2
libraries, modern, Pope’s Dunciad on, 78–79
Lisbon earthquake of 1755, 92, 93; historical events coinciding with, 94; in human cultural imaginary, 98, 106–7; illustration of, 90f; impact on Enlightenment thought, 99–102; impact on science, 98–99; as other-than-human geological event, 107; scientific, literary, and philosophical reactions to, 93–94; seen as act of divine retribution, 94–95; Voltaire’s description of, 100–101
Lisbon earthquake of 1755, poetry of, 20, 91–92, 94–98, 100, 102–9; and counterhuman literary explication (counterhuman oxymoron), 20, 92, 104–9; enumeration/multiplicity in, 20, 102–4, 107, 124; other-than-human vitality in, 131; Pope’s Dunciad compared to, 102, 104, 108–9; singularity in, 104–6; tropes of disaster discourse used in, 20, 96–98, 100, 102, 106–7
literary animal studies, 1–3, 16; counterhuman imaginary and, 17; on human agency, role of, 85–86; Pope’s Dunciad and, 87
literary criticism: counterhuman imaginary and, 14; mobilization of matter for, Robinson Crusoe as model for, 67; on things, 47–48. See also new materialism
literature: innovation in, counterhuman imaginary and, 9–11, 17–21, 23, 24, 27, 67, 131–32; and materialism, mutually constitutive roles of, 66; representation of other-than-human in, 1–7, 17–21; and science, bridging in eighteenth century, 66–68; and vitality of matter, unique access to, 6–7, 16. See also specific authors and titles
Liu, Lydia H., 53n16
Locke, John: and Enlightenment materialism, 38; Essay concerning Human Understanding, 28; ideas of matter, 36, 58
London, earthquake of 1750 in, 95
Lucrecius, atomism of, relevance to modern thought, 73–74
Luther, Martin, 61

Mandeville, Bernard, 77
Marcus, Sharon, 133
Markeley, Robert, 119, 122
Marques, José O. A., 101–2
Martian, The (film), 50
Marx, Karl, engagement with Robinson Crusoe, 50, 51
Massumi, Brian, 10
materialism: jar/pot as heuristic for modernity’s engagement with, 54–55; literature and, mutually constitutive roles of, 66; vital, 73. See also new materialism
matter: and affect, integration in circulation narratives, 29–34; counterhuman redefinition of, in Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, 50–55; imaginative engagement with, Robinson Crusoe as turning point in, 47, 49–50, 63–64; intrinsic vitality of, idea of, 5–6; Locke’s ideas of, 36, 58; Newton and reshaping of conception of, 49–50, 55–56, 75–76; powers of, debates on, 55, 59; self-organizing force of, posthumanism on, 15. See also agency/vitality of matter; force(s), of matter; thing(s); thinking matter
McMullin, Ernan, 55–56, 57, 59, 75
Mears, William, 79
Medovoi, Leerom, 4–5
Memoirs and Interesting Adventures of an Embroidered Waistcoat, The, 32
Menely, Tobias: The Animal Claim, 2, 85–86; on animal voice, 2, 7; Climate and the Making of Worlds, 5, 133, 134
metahumanism, 15
meta-paradox, in human claim to access other-than-human, 5, 9, 12–13
Meteorologics (Aristotle), 98
meteorology, great storm of 1703 and advances in, 98, 119
method/methodology: for analysis of counterhuman imaginary, Pope’s Dunciad and, 20, 88–89; experimental, in Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, 63, 66; experimental, Newton’s commitment to, 59–60, 66
Morgan, Thomas, 77
Motteux, Pierre, 77
movement/motion: as defining quality of things, 48; Newton’s laws of, ambiguity in, 56. See also turbulence
multiplicity: and affect, new definition of, 43–44, 107; counterhuman and, 19, 20, 107, 109; in Defoe’s Storm, 124; in earthquake poetry, 20, 102–4, 107, 124; in Finch’s “Upon the Hurricane,” 127; in Pope’s Dunciad, 104, 107, 109; in Swift’s “A City Shower,” 123. See also assemblage(s); singularity, juxtaposed with multiplicity

nature: representation in literature, 3–5; romantic movement and representations of, 115–16. See also environmental events
new materialism, 1, 5–7, 16, 47–48; counterhuman imaginary and, 17; Defoe’s iconic materialist vision and, 55; jar/pot in theorization of, 53–54; and new forms of political action and engagement, 86; Newtonian physics and, 67; Pope’s Dunciad and, 87; quantum physics concepts and, 72; and reconceptualization of relationality, 72–73; Robinson Crusoe’s model and, 67; on transformative potential of actant thing, 25
Newton, Isaac: on agency/forces of matter, 19, 28–29, 56–59, 128; and circulation narrative, 28–29; and conception of matter, reshaping of, 49–50, 55–56, 75–76; and Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, 60; on divine omnipotence, 122; and experimental method, 59–60, 66; and Gildon’s The Golden Spy, 28–29; and inherent powers of matter, debate about, 55; laws of motion, ambiguity in, 56; and new materialism, 67; and Pope’s Dunciad, 75–77, 79, 80; study of alchemy, 57. See also Optics
Nonhuman Turn, The (Grusin), 6
Nostromo (Conrad), 134
novel, rise of, 18

objects. See thing(s)
“Of National Characters” (Hume), 114
omission, revised methodological attention to, 133, 134
“On a Lap-Dog” (Brown), 41
“On an Earthquake” (Clarke), 103, 106
“On the Death of a Lap-Dog” (Smedley), 40
ontological instability, lapdog lyric and, 39, 41–42
Optics (Newton), “Queries” to: on agency/forces of matter, 19, 28–29, 57; on experimental method, 59; as turning point in modern encounter with matter, 47, 49–50
other-than-human: affective convergence with human, in circulation narrative, 32–34; cultural imaginary and human representation of, 7–9, 14; disruptive forces within human cultural imaginary, 17–18; energy/force of, 19; and human creativity, 21, 131–32; meta-paradox in human claim to access, 5, 9, 12–13; ontological instability generated by, 39, 41–42; in Pope’s Dunciad, 72; as protagonist, 23; representation in literature, 1–7, 17–21; unique literary access to, suggestions of, 6–7, 16. See also animal(s); matter; thing(s)
Other Things (Brown), 12
oxymoron, counterhuman, 92, 104–6, 107–9. See also singularity, juxtaposed with multiplicity

pet(s): as protagonist in circulation narrative, 34–37; rise in eighteenth century, 26. See also dog(s)
Philips, Edward, The Adventures of a Black Coat, 32
physics: counterhuman imaginary and, 67; as model for rejection of traditional subject/object rationales, 72; persistence of notions of discontinuity, multiplicity, and contingency in, 73–74, 124–25; relevance of ancient atomism to, 73–74. See also Newton, Isaac; quantum physics
Poem on the Earthquake at Lisbon (Biddulph), 92, 96, 102, 103–5
“Poem on the Late Earthquake at Lisbon, A,” 94–95, 97, 103
“Poem on the Lisbon Disaster: an Inquiry into the Maxim, ‘Whatever is, is Right’“ (Voltaire), 99–100, 107–9; Rousseau’s response to, 101–2
poetry: on experience of environmental transformation, 4; reader grasped by, 14. See also Lisbon earthquake of 1755, poetry of
Poirier, Jean-Paul, 93, 98
Political Unconscious (Jameson), 5
Pope, Alexander: The Essay on Man, 75, 99; Rape of the Lock, 40. See also Dunciad, The
Post-Chaise, Le, 32
postcritique, 13–14, 133
posthumanism, 14–16; counterhuman imaginary and, 16–17, 18
pot. See jar/pot
Price, Richard, 59
Priestley, Joseph, 59
printing industry, Pope’s Dunciad as reflection on rise of, 78–79
protagonist(s): in circulation narratives, 19, 24–25, 27–37; individualist, primacy in eighteenth-century English literature, 18; other-than-human as, 23
Protestantism, Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe on, 61

quantum physics: and new materialism, 72; notions of discontinuity, multiplicity, and contingency in, 124; relevance of atomism to, 74

Radner, John B., 93
Rape of the Lock (Pope), 40
rationalizing theology, 37
reading: reparative, 14; surface, 14; symptomatic, 132–34
realism: agential, 72; counterhuman imaginary and, 68
Reformation, struggles and debates around, 94
relationality/interrelationality: affect theory on, 10–11; in circulation narrative and lapdog lyric, 11, 19, 32–34, 131–32; counterhuman imaginary and, 7, 18; in Defoe’s Storm, 124; new materialism and reconceptualization of, 72–73; in Pope’s Dunciad, 81–85, 87, 107, 124; in Swift’s “A City Shower,” 123. See also assemblage(s); cross-species intimacy
Remarks on the Influence of Climate … [on] Mankind (Falconer), 114
reparative reading, 14
Richardson, Samuel, 52
“Rival Lap-Dog, The” (Carey), 42
Rival Lapdog and the Tale, The, 41
robinsonade: label of, 50; scope of, 53
Robinson Crusoe (Defoe), 49–55; agency/vitality of matter in, 19–20, 52–53, 60–66, 107, 128, 131; counterhuman redefinition of matter in, 50–55; and economics, reflection on, 50–52, 61–62; engagement with Newtonian notions of gravitation, 75; as experiment in representation of force, 60–62; jar/pot in, 52–53, 53n16, 63–64, 66; Lisbon earthquake poetry compared to, 102; as model for mobilization of matter for literary critique, 67; Newton’s representation of matter compared to, 60; as turning point in modern encounter with matter, 47, 49–50, 63–64; Watt on, 51–52; Woolf on, 52–53
Robinson Crusoe Economy (RCE), 51
romantic movement, and representations of nature, 115–16
Rose, Nikolas S., 73
Ross, William, 74, 125
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, Lettre à M. de Voltaire, 101–2

satire: in lapdog lyric, 39; in Pope’s Dunciad, 71, 88; in Voltaire’s writings, 100
Schmidgen, Wolfgang, 35
Schnabel, Johann Gottfried, 50
Schofield, Robert E., 56
science: environmental events and advances in, 98, 119; and literature, bridging in eighteenth century, 66–68; posthumanism in, 15; redefinition of material world and, 50. See also physics
Seasons, The (Thomson), 115–16
Secret History of an old Shoe, The, 32
Sedan, The, 32–34
Serres, Michel, 73–74, 124–25
Settee, The, 32
sexuality, lapdog lyric and evocation of, 39–43
Simmel, Georg, on das Krug, 54
singularity, juxtaposed with multiplicity: in Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, 63; in earthquake poetry, 20, 92, 104–9; in Pope’s Dunciad, 87–88
Smedley, Jonathan, “On the Death of a Lap-Dog,” 40
Smith, Adam, engagement with Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, 50
Smith, Courtney Weiss, 127
Sopha, The (Crébillon), 32
specie: agency/efficacy of, 28, 29; energy and vitality associated with, 24; and human affect, 29–32; as material concretization of economic exchange, 29, 32; as protagonist of circulation narrative, 27–32, 34–35; and species, conjunction between imaginative engagement with, 34–35, 37
species: boundaries between, radical overwriting of, 14; difference among, contemporary engagement with ideas about, 37–38; in lapdog lyric, 24; and specie, conjunction between imaginative engagement with, 34–35, 37. See also cross-species inclusivity; cross-species intimacy
Spectator (Addison), 113–14
spectrum, notion of, 7
Spinoza, vitalism of, 73
Stage-Coach, The, 32
Steele, Richard, 116
Stevens, Wallace, “Anecdote of the Jar,” 55n21
storm(s): of 1703, and advances in meteorology, 98, 119; in Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, 62–63; enumeration in depiction of, 116, 126–27; representation in art, 110f; representation in literature, 115–16, 125–27; in Virgil’s Aeneid, 117. See also “City Shower, A” (Swift); Storm, The (Defoe)
Storm, The (Defoe), 21, 118–23; counterhuman interrelationality in, 124; enumeration/assemblages in, 125–27; evocation of impossibility of description in, 21, 120, 121–23, 126, 127–28; historical and contextual section in, 119; human assertions of authority in, 111, 112; other-than-human vitality in, 131; personal account in, 120; as pioneering work of modern journalism, 118–19; voice of the storm in, 129
storytelling: and cross-species inclusivity, 1–2, 7. See also literature
suffusion, of human into other-than-human, in circulation narrative and lapdog lyric, 11, 19, 25, 30, 34
surface reading, claims for, 14
Swift, Jonathan. See “A City Shower”
symbolism, other-than-human and capacity for, 7
symptomatic reading, 132; other-than-human vitality and, 132–34

Tague, Ingrid H., 38n19
Tatler, The (journal), 27, 116
temporality, human, challenges to: circulation narrative and, 31; Defoe’s writings and, 49, 118; earthquake poetry and, 106; Newton’s discourse and, 49
Thacker, Christopher, 115
thin description, 14
thing(s): attentiveness to, literature and, 6; energy/vitality of, in Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, 19–20, 52–53, 60–66, 107, 128; exchangeability as defining quality of, 48; human beings materializing into, in Pope’s Dunciad, 77–79; jar/pot as icon for completeness of, 53–54; literary criticism on, 47–48; narrative engagement with, in Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, 63–64; new materialist critique on, 67; Newtonian context and, 60; nonhierarchic/antianthropocentric relationality of, in Pope’s Dunciad, 81–85. See also assemblage(s)
thing-power, 48, 73, 86–87
thing-protagonist(s): ability to access human affect, 29–33; in circulation narrative, 19, 24–25, 27–34; in it-narrative, 48
things-in-themselves, 12
Things Things Say, The (Lamb), 47–48
thinking matter: circulation narrative’s engagement with, 28–29; eighteenth-century speculations regarding, 28; Locke on, 58
Thomas, Keith, 26
Thompson, Isaac, “The Lap-Dog,” 40, 41
Thompson, John B., 8
Thomson, James, The Seasons, 115–16
transhumanism, 15
transposition/transformation: embodied affect and, 44; as theme of lapdog lyric, 41–43
Travels of Mons. Le Post-Chaise, 32
turbulence: counterhuman imaginary and, 14, 89; in Defoe’s Storm, 124; in Pope’s Dunciad, 20, 82, 88–89; in Swift’s “A City Shower,” 123
Turk, Michael H., 68

“Upon Cælia’s having a little Dog in her Lap” (Hewitt), 42
“Upon the Hurricane” (Finch), 122n22, 127
urbanization, and petkeeping, 26
Usufructuary Ethos, The (Drew), 3–4

van der Tuin, Iris, 6, 7
Vibrant Matter (Bennett), 6, 67, 73, 86–87
Virgil: Pope’s Dunciad mocking, 71; and Swift’s “A City Shower,” 117
vitality of matter. See agency/vitality of matter
vital materialism, 73
voice: animal, 2, 7, 85–86; of storm, 129
volcanoes, association with earthquakes, 98
Voltaire: Candide; or, Optimism, 100–101; debate with Rousseau, 101–2; “Poem on the Lisbon Disaster: an Inquiry into the Maxim, ‘Whatever is, is Right,’” 99–100, 107–9
Voyages, Dangerous Adventures, and Imminent Escapes of Captain Richard Falconer, 50

Wallace, Elizabeth Kowaleski, 75
Watt, Ian, 51–52
Watts, Isaac, 59
weather: modern science of, 98, 119; representation in art, 110f; representation in literature, 113–16, 125–27. See also climate; storm(s)
Webb, David, 74, 125
Weber, Christopher, 96, 97
Weber, Harold, 78, 79
Wesley, Charles, Hymns occasioned by the Earthquake, 91, 94, 95, 105–6
Wilson, Milton, 60n36
Woolf, Virginia, 52–53, 54, 55

Yolton, John, 28, 55, 58, 59

Zammito, John, 86