“Copyright” in “The Counterhuman Imaginary”
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First published 2023 by Cornell University Press
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Brown, Laura, 1949– author.
Title: The counterhuman imaginary: earthquakes, lapdogs, and traveling coinage in eighteenth-century literature / Laura Brown.
Description: Ithaca [New York]: Cornell University Press, 2023. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2023003313 (print) | LCCN 2023003314 (ebook) | ISBN 9781501772559 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781501773242 (paperback) | ISBN 9781501772573 (pdf) | ISBN 9781501772566 (epub)
Subjects: LCSH: English literature—18th century—History and criticism. | Imagination in literature. | Human beings in literature. | Animals in literature. | Human-animal relationships in literature.
Classification: LCC PR448.I515 B76 2023 (print) | LCC PR448.I515 (ebook) | DDC 820.9/005—dc23/eng/20230406
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Cover illustration: Storm and Shipwreck by Day by Pellegrino dal Colle. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Belinda L. Randall from the collection of John Witt Randall. Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College, R9023.
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