title: Why read about animals: On the formation of the animal autobiography as a literary genre in the 18th–19th century British literature
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metadata.value: Ivankiva, Marina V.
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metadata.value: 2023-12-19T16:18:15Z
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metadata.value: 2023-09
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metadata.value: Ivankiva M. V. Why read about animals: On the formation of the animal autobiography as a literary genre in the 18th–19th century British literature. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Language and Literature. 2023, 20 (2): 495–515. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu09.2023.306 (In Russian)
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu09.2023.306
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/44522
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metadata.value: The article presents an analysis of the genesis of the genre of animal autobiography in English
  literature at the turn of the 18th–19th centuries. The emergence, formation and evolution of
  the genre is considered in three contexts. The ideas of Adam Smith and David Hume together
  with the pedagogical teachings of John Locke and Sarah Trimmer form the central philosophical
  concepts of the new genre: sentimental feeling, sympathy, concern for the well-being of
  another living being. Comparison of the animal autobiography with “novel of circulation”, a
  popular in the XVIII century type of novel about adventures of a thing, focuses readers attention
  on animate and inanimate narrator which leads to the didactics of a new genre. Autobiographical
  narratives such as “The Life and Perambulations of a Mouse” of Dorothy Kilner,
  “Adventures of a Donkey” of Arabella Argus, and “Black Beauty” of Anna Sewell are studied in
  the context of the 18th and 19th century novel culture and since the authors of such autobiographies
  were predominantly women, who were responsible for caregiving and education, within
  the female narrative strategies in biographies. Written over two centuries ago by women who
  appropriated the voices of animals and spoke of their well-being, animal autobiographies are
  studied in terms of ecofeminist critique and human-animal studies. It is concluded that this
  genre may be regarded as an enlightenment project, which had and still has not only a didactic,
  but also an emancipatory function.
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metadata.value: ru
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Language and Literature;Volume 20; Issue 3
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: animal autobiography
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: children’s literature
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Enlightenment
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: British literature
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: empathy
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metadata.value: Why read about animals: On the formation of the animal autobiography as a literary genre in the 18th–19th century British literature
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metadata.value: Article
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