A Cultural History of Animals in the Age of Enlightenment
Senior, Matthew (EDT)
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BOOK SYNOPSIS
The period of the Enlightenment saw great changes in the way animals were seen. The codifying and categorizing impulse of the age of reason saw sharp lines drawn between different animal species and between animals and humans. In 1600, beasts were still seen as the foils and adversaries of human reason. By 1800, animals had become exemplars of sentiment and compassion, the new standards of truth and morals. A new age had dawned, a time when humans admired animals and sought to recover their own animality. As with all the volumes in the illustrated Cultural History of Animals, this volume presents an overview of the period and continues with essays on the position of animals in contemporary Symbolism, Hunting, Domestication, Sports and Entertainment, Science, Philosophy, and Art. Volume 4 in the Cultural History of Animals edited by Linda Kalof and Brigitte Resl
AUTHOR BIO
Matthew Senior is Professor of French at the University of Minnesota and author of Animal Acts: Configuring the Human in Western History.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction: The Place of the Animal, 1600-1800, Matthew Senior, University of Minnesota, Morris * 1. The Souls of Men and Beasts, 1637-1764, Matthew Senior, University of Minnesota, Morris * 2. Hunting and the Ancien Régime, Amy Warthesen, Cornell University * 3. Strange Familiars: The Two Faces of Animal Domestication, Karen Raber, University of Mississippi * 4. Inside and Outside: Animal Activity and the Red Bull Playhouse, St. John Street, Eva Griffith, University of Durham * 5. Natural History, Natural Philosophy, and Animals, Anita Guerrini, University of California, Santa Barbara * 6. The Animal Enlightenment, Jean-Luc Guichet, Collège de Philosophie, Paris * 7. The Animal in 17th and 18th-Century Art, Madeleine Pinault-Sorensen, Musée du Louvre * Notes * Bibliography *
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ISBN: 1845203720
ISBN(13-digit): 9781845203726
Dewey Decimal: 301
Book Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 240
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