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A history of attitudes and behaviours toward animals in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain : anthropocentrism and the emergence of animals
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- Creator
- Rob Boddice ; with a foreword by Boria Sax
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, [2008]
- ©2008
- Physical Details
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- viii, 382 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780773449039, 0773449035
- OCLC
- ocn299711980
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-375) and index.
- 1. Introduction: Human-animal relations and the discipline of history. What is an animal? An historical question; Historical 'progress'; Cruelty; Animals; Pain; Focus, structure and sources -- 2. Neoclassicism and animals in the eighteenth century. Some myths and a chasm; Thomas Taylor the Platonist; The influence of Plutarch and Lucretius; Mixed reason: Epicurus in an eighteenth-century quest for animal souls; Liminal reason: Platonic irony, Gulliver and the Houyhnhnms; Conclusion: Taylor's vindication -- 3. Cruelty to animals and the 'great chain of being'. Background to the early-modern humane movement; A media cause c61&bre; The 'great chain of being' in popular culture; Cruelty, the 'great chain' and philosophy -- 4. The Bentham Myth and early legislative attempts. The Myth, or what scholars say about Jeremy Bentham; Myth busting: what Bentham actually said, and what it meant; The original Myth: William Whewell and John Stuart Mill; Real historical forces: Lawrence, Wilberforce, Erskine -- 5. Reform and enforcement in the nineteenth century. Creating and characterising the RSPCA; Creating and enforcing legislation: Martin's Act; Enforcement case studies: Stamford and Berkeley -- 6. Masculinity and animals in nineteenth-century sporting culture. Bull baiters; Cockfighters; Dog fighters and ratters; Huntsmen -- 7. The human as animal? Anthropocentrism in nineteenth-century culture and science. The historical animal mind; Anthropocentrism, anthropomorphism and animal pain; Darwin and vivisection; Conclusion -- 8. Emerging animals
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- Animal rights -- Great Britain -- History.
- Animal welfare -- Great Britain -- History.
- Human-animal relationships -- Great Britain -- History.
- Animal Welfare -- history -- Great Britain.
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- History, 18th Century -- Great Britain.
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- History, 19th Century -- Great Britain.
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