“Doncher be too sure of that!”: Children, Dogs, and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps’s Early Posthumanism

This essay traces posthuman thought in stories about dogs and children by nineteenth-century American author Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. Drawing from the writings of Phelps and her anti-vivisectionist contemporaries and from recent posthuman philosophy, I analyze the ways in which Phelps’ focus on medi...

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Published inBookbird Vol. 53; no. 1; pp. 10 - 23
Main Author Harde, Roxanne
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Basel Johns Hopkins University Press 2015
Bookbird, Inc
Subjects
Activism
Activists
American literature
Animals
Childrens literature
Dogs
Essays
Experiments
Family Relationship
Females
Feminism
Fiction
Laboratory animals
Medical research
Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart (1844-1911)
Philosophy
Scientific Enterprise
Studies
Women
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Summary:This essay traces posthuman thought in stories about dogs and children by nineteenth-century American author Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. Drawing from the writings of Phelps and her anti-vivisectionist contemporaries and from recent posthuman philosophy, I analyze the ways in which Phelps’ focus on medical experimentation became a way for her to theorize the place of the nonhuman animal in fiction for children.
ISSN:0006-7377
1918-6983
1918-6983
DOI:10.1353/bkb.2015.0016