"This set of five volumes offers scholars and students a selection of historical source materials thematically arranged and edited to provide a comprehensive overview of key phenomena and developments pertaining to animals and human-animal relations in (long-)nineteenth-century society"-- Provided by publisher.
This volume addresses the broad topic of "thinking animality" in the long nineteenth century and the constitutive interplay between conceptualizations of the animal and the human that bolstered but also challenged the widespread idea of human uniqueness. This volume comprises source materials that offer insights into the key parameters along which debates about human-animal difference unfolded in British and American print culture. The sources collected outline an intellectual history of animality in the long nineteenth century.
This volume addresses the broad topic of "thinking animality" in the long nineteenth century and the constitutive interplay between conceptualizations of the animal and the human that bolstered but also challenged the widespread idea of human uniqueness.
Volume 1: Animal and Human in American Thought (Part 1)
General Introduction
Volume 1 Introduction
1. William Bartram, Anecdotes of an American Crow, Philadelphia Medical and
Physical Journal 1 (1804):
8995.
2. Frederick Augustus Rauch, extract from Psychology; or, a View of the Human
Soul; Including Anthropology (New York: M. W. Dodd, 1841), pp. 9-17, 30-44.
3. Phrenology and Animal Character in the American Phrenological Journal
(1845-1851)
3.1 [ Orson Fowler], The Physiology, Phrenology, and Natural History, of the
Ourang Outang, or Chimpanze. American Phrenological Journal 7, no. 3 (March
1845): 65-70.
3.2 Animal Phrenology. American Phrenological Journal 13, no. 1 (January
1851): 6-7.
3.3 Animal Phrenology. Number II. American Phrenological Journal 13, no. 2
(February 1851):
32.
4. Lewis Henry Morgan, Animal Psyhology, in The American Beaver and His
Works (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott and Co., 1868).
5. Arthur E. Brown, [ Primate Minds and Morals in the Philadelphia Zoo], The
American Naturalist (1878-1883)
5. 1 Arthur Erwin Brown. The Serpent and the Ape. The American Naturalist
12, no. 4 (April 1878):
22528.
5.2 , Grief in the Chimpanzee. The American Naturalist 13, no. 3 (March
1879):
17375.
5.3 , The Kindred of Man. The American Naturalist 17, no. 2 (February
1883):
11930.
6. Francis Bowen, The Human and the Brute Mind, The Princeton Review 56
(May 1880): 32129, 331-34, 336-38, 340-43.
7. William James, What Is an Instinct? Scribners Magazine 1, no. 3 (March
1887):
35565.
8. Richard Lynch Garner, [ Learning the Simian Tongue], from The Speech of
Monkeys (New York: Charles L. Webster & Co., 1892), pp. 3-21, 30-9, 57-67
9. Edward Lee Thorndike, Do Animals Reason? Popular Science Monthly 55
(August 1899): 480490, and Correspondence: Do Animals Reason? Popular
Science Monthly 55 (October 1899):
843847.
10. Ernest Ingersoll, Do Animals Commit Suicide? A Study of Brute
Limitations, in The Wit of the Wild. (New York: Dodd, Mead and Company,
1906), pp. 196-210.
11. William Temple Hornaday, [ Animal Crime and Criminal Animals], The
Psychology of Wild Animals, McClures Magazine 30, no. 4 (February 1908):
46979.
12. Margaret Floy Washburn, [ Mathods and Challenges in Studying Animal
Minds], from The Animal Mind: A Text-Book of Comparative Psychology (New
York: The Macmillan Company, 1908), pp. 1-5, 7-13, 24-36.
13. Charles Abram Ellwood, The Origin of Society. American Journal of
Sociology 15, no. 3 (November 1909): 394-404.
14. Ira Woods Howerth, The Great War and the Instinct of the Herd,
International Journal of Ethics 29, no. 2 (1919):
17487.
Index
Dominik Ohrem is Research Associate at MESH Multidisciplinary Environmental Studies in the Humanities and Postdoctoral Researcher at HESCOR (Cultural Evolution in Changing Climate: Human and Earth System Coupled Research) at the University of Cologne, Germany. His research is focused on the history and philosophy of human-animal and multispecies relations.
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