The beast in the boudoir : petkeeping in nineteenth-century Paris /

The beast in the boudoir : petkeeping in nineteenth-century Paris /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Kete, Kathleen
Imprint:	Berkeley : University of California Press, c1994.
Description:	x, 200 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Pet owners -- France -- Paris -- History -- 19th century. Pets -- Social aspects -- France -- Paris -- History -- 19th century. Manners and customs. Pet owners. Pets -- Social aspects. Paris (France) -- Social life and customs France -- Paris. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1629936

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Other title:	Petkeeping in nineteenth-century Paris.
ISBN:	0520071018 (alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-188) and index.

Table of Contents:

1. Animal Protection in Nineteenth-Century Paris: The Case of Pets
2. The Notion of Fidelity in a Bourgeois World
3. The Embourgeoisement of the Beast
4. Dreamworlds of the Bourgeois Interior (1): Pets and Private Life
5. Dreamworlds of the Bourgeois Interior (2): Domesticity and the Dog-Care Book
6. La Rage and the Bourgeoisie
7. Cats and Categorization.