Humans, Animals, and U.S. Society in the Long Nineteenth Century: A Documentary History

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.