Fernán Caballero y la defensa de la causa animal como proyecto nacional en «Los pobres perros abandonados» (1865)

• Main Author: Julie Botteron
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Universidad de Cádiz 2019-12-01
• Series: Cuadernos de Ilustración y Romanticismo
• Subjects: angel of the house; civilisation; animal rights; education; national identity; female readers
• Online Access: https://revistas.uca.es/index.php/cir/article/view/4882

In her article «Los pobres perros abandonados» (1865), Fernán Caballero develops a critique of the cruelty towards dogs in Spain. The author plays with the feminine and maternal perspective offered by a magazine such as El Ángel del Hogar to talk about the identity construction of Spain as a civilized nation through the case of animal abuse. By means of a literary game which includes Antoine de Latour, Miguel de Cervantes and Dulcinea, a descendant of the dogs of El coloquio, she aims to display various educative purposes, and in particular the moral problem and consequent danger constituted by modern novels.