Consumable Metaphors

The Author: Ceri Crossley is Professor of Nineteenth-Century French Studies at the University of Birmingham. He holds an Honorary Doctorate from the Université Blaise Pascal (Clermont-Ferrand). He has published widely in the fields of nineteenth-century French literature, intellectual history and historiography.

Contents: Philosophical interpretations of Animal Nature - Animal protection and welfare in nineteenth-century France - Socialism and Animals - Catholicism and the Animals Question - Scientific Vegetarianism - Occult and Anarchist Vegetarianism - Vivisection and Feminism.

«A main strength of the volume is that while a chronological structure is used to organize the material, the developing arguments map the heterogeneity of thought on animals rather than suggesting any unified and linear progression of ideas through the period. The diversity of the currents of thought explored reminds us that developments in the 'history of ideas' are most successfully mapped when they are understood, as they are here, as flows, counter-flows and exchanges.» (Rachael Langford, French Studies)