from the 1994 English Institute
Conference
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Contributors:
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Nancy Armstrong
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City Things: Photography and the
Urbanization Process
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Rey Chow
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The Dream of a Butterfly
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Drucilla Cornell
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The Right to Abortion and the Imaginary
Domain
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Marjorie Garber
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Heavy Petting
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Barbara Johnson
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Muteness Envy
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Cora Kaplan
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A Heterogeneous Thing: Female Childhood
and the Rise of Racial Thinking in
Victorian Britain
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James Kincaid
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Producing Erotic Children
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Harriet Ritvo
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Barring the Cross: Miscegenation and
Purity in Eighteenth- and
Nineteenth-Century Britain
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David Wills
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1553: Putting a First Foot Forward
(Ramus, Wilson, Parè)
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The question of what it means to be human has
never before been more difficult and more
contested. The human, with a complicated social
history that his rarely been examined, remains
entrenched in traditional Enlightenment thinking.
Human, All Too Human considers how we might
radicalize our notion of the human. Can the human
be thought outside humanism?
Any rethinking of the human places us
immediately inside an ever-widening field of
contrasting labels: animate and inanimate, natural
and artificial, living and dead, organic and
mechanistic. These and other boundary confusions at
the frontier of the human are the subject of this
volume, as each essay takes up one of three
disputed border identities: animals, things or
children. Human, All Too Human examines how we
explain our interest in anthropomorphism and our
fascination with species categorizations. Essays
explore what we mean by "things" and how the
integrity of the human may already be compromised
by them.
The nine essays in this volume all attempt to
rethink the category of the human, challenging some
of our most cherished cultural classifications. By
inviting us to place the tradition's subject of
knowledge in the unsettling position of object,
these writers interrogate the boundary distinctions
that, until now, have exempted the human from the
vigilant analysis it so urgently requires.
246 pages
Dimensions: 6 x 9 inches; 229 x 153 mm
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