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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      22 September 2009
      23 October 2003
      ISBN:
      9780511484421
      9780521829410
      9780521045988
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511484421
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.494kg, 212 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.324kg, 212 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, History, English Literature 1700-1830, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Romanticism (58)
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    Subjects:
    Literature, History, English Literature 1700-1830, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Romanticism (58)
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    In England in the second half of the eighteenth century an unprecedented amount of writing urged kindness to animals. This theme was carried in many genres, from sermons to encyclopedias, from scientific works to literature for children, and in the poetry of Cowper, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Clare and others. Romanticism and Animal Rights discusses the arguments writers used, and the particular meanings of these arguments in a social and economic context so different from the present. After introductory chapters, the material is divided according to specific practices that particularly influenced feeling or aroused protest: pet keeping, hunting, baiting, working animals, eating them, and the various harms inflicted on wild birds. The book shows how extensively English Romantic writing took up issues of what we now call animal rights. In this respect it joins the growing number of studies that seek precedents or affinities in English Romanticism for our own ecological concerns.

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    'This is a welcome book … he not only provides the kind of scholarship that is necessary to inform the more general picture of animal studies, he also leaves plenty of scope for more detailed accounts of particular issues. What is more he does it through in an engagingly frank and clear approach to his reader.’

    Source: Literature & History

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