The Animal Claim
Sensibility and the Creaturely Voice
- Contents
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- Awards

Chapter 1. The Significant Voice: Address and the Animal Sign
Chapter 2. Creaturely Origins: Enlightenment Naturalism and the Animal Voice
Chapter 3. The Addressive Animal: The Augustans and “Tyrant Custom”
Chapter 4. Creaturely Advocacy: Poetic Vocation in the Age of Sensibility
Chapter 5. Sensibilities into Statutes: Animal Rights and the Afterlife of Sensibility
Afterword: The Law and the Factory
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies: Oscar Kenshur Book Prize
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Literature and Literary Criticism: British and Irish Literature | General Criticism and Critical Theory
Philosophy: Ethics
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