A Cultural History of Animals in the Age of Enlightenment
Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2008. 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 ov…
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- ISBN: 978-1-84788-820-4
- EAN: 9781847888204
- Produktnummer: 16718525
- Verlag: Berg Publ Inc
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 272 S.
- Masse: H23.9 cm x B17.0 cm x D1.3 cm 476 g
- Gewicht: 476
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Matthew Senior is Professor of French at Oberlin College and author of Animal Acts: Configuring the Human in Western History.
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