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Consumable Metaphors - Attitudes Towards Animals and Vegetarianism in Nineteenth-century France (Paperback)
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Consumable Metaphors - Attitudes Towards Animals and Vegetarianism in Nineteenth-century France (Paperback)
Series: French Studies of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, 17
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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. This book
analyses how animals as symbols externalize and mythologize human
fears and wishes, but it also demonstrates that animals have an
existence in and for themselves and are not simply useful counters
functioning within discourse.
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