Preferred Citation: Kete, Kathleen. The Beast in the Boudoir: Petkeeping in Nineteenth-Century Paris. Berkeley:  University of California Press,  c1994 1994. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft3c6004dj/

 
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INTRODUCTION

1. Walter Benjamin, "On Some Motifs in Baudelaire," in Illuminations, ed. Hannah Mendt, trans. Harry Zorn (New York: Schocken, 1969), 197.

2. "By 1700," Thomas explains, "all the symptoms of obsessive petkeeping were in evidence." Cats were "privileged animals," as well as dogs. "Well fed, doted upon by loving masters, dogs, especially, figured in portraits of country squires and aristocrats" (Keith Thomas, Man and the Natural World: A History of the Modern Sensibility [New York: Pantheon, 1983], 117). Harriet Ritvo's work includes The Animal Estate: The English and Other Creatures in the Victorian Age (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1987), and numerous articles on the general subject of animals and British culture.

3. Hester Hastings, Man and Beast in French Thought of the Eighteenth Century (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1936), 205-206. See also Sébastien Mercier, Le Tableau de Paris (Amsterdam, 1783), 8:133, 337-338.

4. Alain Corbin, Le Territoire du vide: L'occident et le désir du rivage (Paris: Aubier, 1988), 321.

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Preferred Citation: Kete, Kathleen. The Beast in the Boudoir: Petkeeping in Nineteenth-Century Paris. Berkeley:  University of California Press,  c1994 1994. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft3c6004dj/