Search for dissertations about: "The Parly of Beasts"

Found 1 swedish dissertation containing the words The Parly of Beasts.

2. 1. Beastly Lessons: Natural Utopias in Seventeenth-Century England

   Author : Sandra Iren Kottum; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; theriophily; animals; nature; utopias; emblems; empiricism; anthropocentrism; language of nature; beast literature; malleability; politics; animal exemplarity; animal language; colonialism; vegetarianism; early modern zoology; Leviticus; Royal Society; bestiaries; fables; The Parly of Beasts; The Blazing World; The Way to Health; James Howell; Margaret Cavendish; Thomas Tryon; early modern England; Golden Age; paradise; misanthropy; ecocriticism; self-fashioning;

   Abstract : The present study investigates the motif of virtuous animal instructors in three selected English texts from the second half of the seventeenth century: James Howell’s The Parly of Beasts (1660), Margaret Cavendish’s The Blazing World (1666), and Thomas Tryon’s The Way to Health (1683). These authors proposed solutions to the challenges facing early modern England, most notably the Civil War, the emerging empirical science, and the incipient colonization of the Americas. READ MORE