Cultural History of Animals in the Age of Enlightenment

Matthew Senior is Professor of French at Oberlin College and author of Animal Acts: Configuring the Human in Western History.

• Introduction: The Animal Witness Matthew Senior, Oberlin College 1. The Souls of Men and Beasts, 1637-1764Matthew Senior, Oberlin College 2. The War Against Animals: The Culture of the Hunt in Early Modern FranceAmy Warthesen, Cornell University 3. From Sheep to Meat, From Pets to People, Animal Domestication 1600-1800Karen Raber, University of Mississippi 4. Inside and Outside: Animal Activity and the Red Bull Playhouse, St. John StreetEva Griffith, University of Durham 5. Natural History, Natural Philosophy, and AnimalsAnita Guerrini, University of California-Santa Barbara 6. Animality and Anthropology in Jean-Jacques RousseauJean-Luc Guichet, Collège de Philosophie, Paris 7. Portraits of Animals, 1600-1800Madeleine Pinault-Sorensen, Musée du Louvre Notes BibliographyIndex

The Cultural History of Animals presents an innovative and compelling introduction to current scholarship about the historical relationships between people and other animals.