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Article: Brutal Reasoning: Animals, Rationality, and Humanity in Early Modern England.(Book review)
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- Renaissance Quarterly
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- June 22, 2007
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Erica Fudge. Brutal Reasoning: Animals, Rationality, and Humanity in Early Modern England.
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006. xii + 224 pp. index. illus. bibl. $45. ISBN: 0-8014-4454-8.
Erica Fudge describes Brutal Reasoning as an exploration of "how humans were constructed ... what being human meant, and ... how humans could lose their humanity" in early modern England (2). In addressing these matters, Fudge aims, more broadly, "to challenge the silent effacement of the animal" in early modern studies (5), an effacement she presents as endemic to contemporary scholarship: "Part of our sense making is to maintain a notion of natural order ... and ...
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