Lynn Festa (NHC Fellow, 2013–14)

Project Title

All Things Human in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Fellowship Work Summary, 2013–14

Lynn Festa made substantial progress on her book All Things Human in Eighteenth-Century Britain and completed a chapter for a Blackwell Companion on “The 1790s.&rdquo.

Genre > Monographs

Fiction Without Humanity: Person, Animal, Thing in Early Enlightenment Literature and Culture

Literature / Age of Enlightenment / Literary History / Anthropomorphism / Humanity /

Genre > Conference Panels

“The Human” as a Distinct Category and Its Significance for Human Rights Panel: Lynn Festa

Philosophy / History / Human Rights / Historical Linguistics / Citizenship / Abolotionism / Transnationalism /