Explores how thinking about pets in eighteenth-century Britain reflected and influenced the great social and cultural debates of the day, including struggles over gender, race, class, and national identity.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Material Conditions of Pet Keeping
2. Domesticating the Exotic
3. Fashioning the Pet
4. A Privilege or a Right?
5. Pets and Their People
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
—Matthew Senior, Oberlin College
