"Empathy and Evolution: The History of Emotions and the Literary and Visual Representation of Animals"
Grant number: DP110102994 | Funding period: 2011 - 2015
Completed
Abstract
A study of emotions in human and animals is a key area of contemporary research in both the sciences and humanities. It has crucial implications for our future. This project will investigate how humans have represented the emotions in literary and visual discourses from the eighteenth-century to the present.