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Consumable Metaphors: Attitudes Towards Animals and Vegetarianism in Nineteenth-Century France

Consumable Metaphors: Attitudes Towards Animals and Vegetarianism in Nineteenth-Century France

Crossley, Ceri
Cook, Malcolm
Kearns, James

Paperback

Series: French Studies of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, Book 17

Literary CriticismFrench HistoryZoology

ISBN10: 3039101900
ISBN13: 9783039101900
Publisher: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis
Published: Jul 20 2005
Pages: 322
Weight: 0.97
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This book studies the various definitions of animal nature proposed by nineteenth-century currents of thought in France. It is based on an examination of a number of key thinkers and writers, some well known (for example, Michelet and Lamartine), others largely forgotten (for example, Gleizes and Reynaud). At the centre of the book lies the idea that knowledge of animals is often knowledge of something else, that the primary referentiality is overlaid with additional levels of meaning. In nineteenth-century France thinking about animals (their future and their past) became a way of thinking about power relations in society, for example about the status of women and the problem of the labouring classes.

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