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Article: Consumable Metaphors: Attitudes towards Animals and Vegetarianism in Nineteenth-Century France.(Book review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- April 1, 2007
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Consumable Metaphors: Attitudes towards Animals and Vegetarianism in Nineteenth-Century France. By CERI CROSSLEY. (French Studies of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, 17) Bern: Peter Lang. 2005. 322 pp. 37 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-3-03-910190-0.
The last decade has seen the spectacular growth of a wide range of publications often gathered under the umbrella term of 'Animal Studies'. The majority of these publications are Anglo-Saxon, so Ceri Crossley's book is a welcome addition to the relatively small corpus of French research into animals.
The title, Consumable Metaphors, implies that animal representation rather than attitudes to real ...