ISBN:
9781935408277
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (497 pages)
Series Statement:
MIT Press Ser
Series Statement:
Zone Bks.
Parallel Title:
Print version Sahlins, Peter 1668
DDC:
304.27
Keywords:
Animals and civilization-France
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Animals-Social aspects-France
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Human-animal relationships-France
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Animals and civilization-France.
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Animals-Social aspects-France.
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Animals and civilization-France..
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Animals-Social aspects-France..
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Human-animal relationships-France
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Abstract:
When animals and their symbolic representations--in the Royal Menagerie, in art, in medicine, in philosophy--helped transform the French state and culture
Abstract:
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: The Wondrous Year of the Animal -- Part One: The Royal Menageries and the Civilizing Process -- Chapter One: Precious Beasts: Animals and Absolutism in the Early Reign of Louis XIV -- Chapter Two: Civilizing Animals: Early Literary Accounts of the Royal Menagerie -- Part Two: The Visual Afterlives of Animals -- Chapter Three: A Woven Zoo: Pieter Boel and the Royal Tapestries of the King -- Chapter Four: The Anatomy of Natural History: Claude Perrault and the Animals Project -- Chapter Five: Animal Faces: Charles le Brun and the Physiognomy of the Passions -- Part Three: In the Shadow of Descartes -- Chapter Six: Beast in the Blood: The First Xenotransfusion Experiments in France (1667-1668) -- Chapter Seven: Resisting Descartes: Three Chameleons between Science and Literature -- Chapter Eight: Aesop Revisited: The Royal Labyrinth of Versailles and the Fable of Absolutism -- Conclusion: Rebecca's Camels and Racine's Dog -- A Partial Chronology of the Year of the Animal, 1661-1669 -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Illustration Credits -- Index of Names
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