Panthères Et Panthéisme: La Sympathie Animale Et La Biologie Mystique De Balzac

Alternate Title

Panthers And Pantheism: Animal Sympathy And Balzac’s Mystical Biology

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2025

Published In

The Balzac Review / Revue Balzac

Abstract

The present project places Balzac’s Une passion dans le désert alongside Séraphîta, highlighting the manner in which the two texts explore largely analogous interspecies relationships between creatures who occupy different rungs along a hierarchical échelle des êtres (human-to-panther in the former, angel-to-human in the latter). In comparing the two, the project points to Balzac’s sensitivity to questions surrounding alterity and continuism that continue to inform animal studies scholarship.

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