Beastly Bodies and Behaviors: Defining the (Un)Natural in the Long Early Modern Period.

Author / Editor
Mahaffy, Mary Caitlin.

Title
Beastly Bodies and Behaviors: Defining the (Un)Natural in the Long Early Modern Period.

Published
Ph.D. Dissertation. (Indiana University, 2022),
Dissertation Abstracts International A83.12(E).

Physical Description
vii, 193 pp

Description
“[E]xplores how understandings of nonhuman animals and the environment shaped which human behaviors were labeled natural prior to the Enlightenment." Includes comments on animals, animal imagery, and environmental idealism in Form Age, MilT, and PF.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism