The Fools of the Leisure Class. Honor, Ridicule, and the Emergence of Animal Protection Legislation in England, 1740–1840
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Published:2006-04
Issue:1
Volume:47
Page:3-35
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ISSN:0003-9756
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Container-title:European Journal of Sociology
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language:en
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Short-container-title:Arch. eur. sociol.
Abstract
The article analyzes the emergence of moral concern for animals in late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century England. This concern was fuelled by a developing aristocratic discourse on civility that was accompanied by a drastic increase in the factual visibility of violence inflicted on animals in the growing cities. In opposition to interpretations based on the concepts of discipline and distinction, the article elaborates the way in which the emergence of moral concern for animals was class-structured without being class-interested.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Subject
Sociology and Political Science
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