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Michael Burns, 23 February 1995

Animals and Human Society: Changing Perspectives 
edited by Aubrey Manning and James Serpell.
Routledge, 199 pp., £35, February 1994, 0 415 09155 1
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The Beast in the Boudoir: Pet-Keeping in 19th-Century Paris 
by Kathleen Kete.
California, 200 pp., £22.50, August 1994, 0 520 07101 8
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... the story of ‘changing perspectives’ as the theoretical treatises of Enlightenment thinkers. Kathleen Kete’s The Beast in the Boudoir focuses on the way in which pet-keeping in 19th-century Paris ‘restates in another mode the century’s central intellectual ideas – ideas about modernity expressed in literary and artistic representation and in ...

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