Embourgeoisement
Michael Burns, 23 February 1995
Animals and Human Society: Changing Perspectives
edited by Aubrey Manning and James Serpell.
Routledge, 199 pp., £35, February 1994,0 415 09155 1 Show More
edited by Aubrey Manning and James Serpell.
Routledge, 199 pp., £35, February 1994,
The Beast in the Boudoir: Pet-Keeping in 19th-Century Paris
by Kathleen Kete.
California, 200 pp., £22.50, August 1994,0 520 07101 8 Show More
by Kathleen Kete.
California, 200 pp., £22.50, August 1994,
“... the story of ‘changing perspectives’ as the theoretical treatises of Enlightenment thinkers. Kathleen Kete’s The Beast in the Boudoir focuses on the way in which pet-keeping in 19th-century Paris ‘restates in another mode the century’s central intellectual ideas – ideas about modernity expressed in literary and artistic representation and in ... ”