Kristoffer's Menagerie - chronological challenge

This blog is a collection or archive of my thoughts and progress on my PhD. My research looks at animals as objects in eighteenth-century Britain. I hope this blog helps me keep track of my thoughts and records my descent into insanity as I write-up my thesis this year.

I have become interested in animal rights and veganism so my thoughts on these will appear from time to time. Recipes too, well only those that don't contain tofu or seitan.

chronological challenge

I’m currently working out how to demonstrate chronological change over the period 1675-1815. Not an easy task. One that involves lots of pretty pens and paper. I’ve got a month to work this out before a big panel meeting.

At first I figured I would trace particular animals through this period. But that doesn’t work. Well I mean as content it works but not as a framework. I think I will work outwards from the idea of animals as objects and show how engagements with these objects changed in this period.