David Perkins0521045983, 9780521045988, 0521829410, 9780521829410, 9780511062872
Fellow feeling for animals, compassion, kindness, friendship, and affectionare expressed in every time and place and culture, in primordial artifacts,Egyptian tombs, Homer’s description of the old dog Argos, as much as inHenry Moore’s 1980 drawings of sheep. Perhaps no argument for kindnessto animals was ever made that had not already been made long before. InEngland, however, in the latter part of the eighteenth century, there was achange, a gradual, eventually enormous increase in the frequency of suchexpressions. Kindness to animals was urged and represented in sermons,treatises, pamphlets, journals, manuals of animal care, encyclopedias, scientificwritings, novels, literature for children, and poems. There were also,of course, writings on the other side, defenses of traditional practices, suchas bullbaiting, but they were far less numerous than the literature I foreground.To what extent all this writing registered or helped bring about ageneral change of mind, and to what extent it contributed to developmentsin the actual treatment of animals, are questions that cannot be answeredwith much certainty. I pursue them briefly in a moment, but the literatureitself, the discourse, is my primary subject. |
Table of contents :
Cover……Page 1
Half-title……Page 3
Series-title……Page 4
Title……Page 5
Copyright……Page 6
Dedication……Page 7
Contents……Page 9
Preface……Page 11
Acknowledgments……Page 18
1 In the beginning of animal rights……Page 19
I……Page 20
II……Page 25
III……Page 31
IV……Page 34
I……Page 38
II……Page 50
III……Page 59
I……Page 62
II……Page 66
III……Page 70
IV……Page 72
I……Page 82
II……Page 92
I……Page 107
II……Page 113
APPENDIX……Page 120
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II……Page 126
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I……Page 148
II……Page 153
III……Page 156
IV……Page 159
PREFACE……Page 166
1 IN THE BEGINNING OF ANIMAL RIGHTS……Page 167
2 GROUNDS OF ARGUMENT……Page 171
3 KEEPING PETS: WILLIAM COWPER AND HIS HARES……Page 177
4 BARBARIAN PLEASURES: AGAINST HUNTING……Page 180
5 SAVAGE AMUSEMENTS OF THE POOR: JOHN CLARE’S BADGER SONNETS……Page 184
6 WORK ANIMALS, SLAVES, SERVANTS: COLERIDGE’S YOUNG ASS……Page 186
7 THE SLAUGHTERHOUSE AND THE KITCHEN: CHARLES LAMB’S “DISSERTATION UPON ROAST PIG”……Page 188
8 CAGED BIRDS AND WILD……Page 189
Bibliographical essay……Page 193
Index……Page 200 |
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