Animals in Victorian Literature and Culture
Title | Animals in Victorian Literature and Culture PDF eBook |
Author | Laurence W. Mazzeno |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 2017-02-20 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1137602198 |
This collection includes twelve provocative essays from a diverse group of international scholars, who utilize a range of interdisciplinary approaches to analyze “real” and “representational” animals that stand out as culturally significant to Victorian literature and culture. Essays focus on a wide range of canonical and non-canonical Victorian writers, including Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, Anna Sewell, Emily Bronte, James Thomson, Christina Rossetti, and Richard Marsh, and they focus on a diverse array of forms: fiction, poetry, journalism, and letters. These essays consider a wide range of cultural attitudes and literary treatments of animals in the Victorian Age, including the development of the animal protection movement, the importation of animals from the expanding Empire, the acclimatization of British animals in other countries, and the problems associated with increasing pet ownership. The collection also includes an Introduction co-written by the editors and Suggestions for Further Study, and will prove of interest to scholars and students across the multiple disciplines which comprise Animal Studies.
Victorian Animal Dreams
Title | Victorian Animal Dreams PDF eBook |
Author | Deborah Denenholz Morse |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 513 |
Release | 2017-05-15 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1351875957 |
The Victorian period witnessed the beginning of a debate on the status of animals that continues today. This volume explicitly acknowledges the way twenty-first-century deliberations about animal rights and the fact of past and prospective animal extinction haunt the discussion of the Victorians' obsession with animals. Combining close attention to historical detail with a sophisticated analytical framework, the contributors examine the various forms of human dominion over animals, including imaginative possession of animals in the realms of fiction, performance, and the visual arts, as well as physical control as manifest in hunting, killing, vivisection and zookeeping. The diverse range of topics, analyzed from a contemporary perspective, makes the volume a significant contribution to Victorian studies. The conclusion by Harriet Ritvo, the pre-eminent authority in the field of Victorian/animal studies, provides valuable insight into the burgeoning field of animal studies and points toward future studies of animals in the Victorian period.
The Political Lives of Victorian Animals
Title | The Political Lives of Victorian Animals PDF eBook |
Author | Anna Feuerstein |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 271 |
Release | 2019-07-04 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1108492967 |
Examines how liberal thought influenced representations of animals within nineteenth-century animal welfare discourse and the Victorian novel.
Animals, Museum Culture and Children’s Literature in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Title | Animals, Museum Culture and Children’s Literature in Nineteenth-Century Britain PDF eBook |
Author | Laurence Talairach |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 309 |
Release | 2021-05-27 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 3030725278 |
Animals, Museum Culture and Children’s Literature in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Curious Beasties explores the relationship between the zoological and palaeontological specimens brought back from around the world in the long nineteenth century—be they alive, stuffed or fossilised—and the development of children’s literature at this time. Children’s literature emerged as dizzying numbers of new species flooded into Britain with scientific expeditions, from giraffes and hippopotami to kangaroos, wombats, platypuses or sloths. As the book argues, late Georgian, Victorian and Edwardian children’s writers took part in the urge for mass education and presented the world and its curious creatures to children, often borrowing from their museum culture and its objects to map out that world. This original exploration illuminates how children’s literature dealt with the new ordering of the world, offering a unique viewpoint on the construction of science in the long nineteenth century.
Animals and Their Children in Victorian Culture
Title | Animals and Their Children in Victorian Culture PDF eBook |
Author | Brenda Ayres |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 2019-11-20 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 100076012X |
Whether a secularized morality, biblical worldview, or unstated set of mores, the Victorian period can and always will be distinguished from those before and after for its pervasive sense of the "proper way" of thinking, speaking, doing, and acting. Animals in literature taught Victorian children how to be behave. If you are a postmodern posthumanist, you might argue, "But the animals in literature did not write their own accounts." Animal characters may be the creations of writers’ imagination, but animals did and do exist in their own right, as did and do humans. The original essays in Animals and Their Children in Victorian explore the representation of animals in children’s literature by resisting an anthropomorphized perception of them. Instead of focusing on the domestication of animals, this book analyzes how animals in literature "civilize" children, teaching them how to get along with fellow creatures—both human and nonhuman.
Victorian Dogs, Victorian Men
Title | Victorian Dogs, Victorian Men PDF eBook |
Author | Keridiana Chez |
Publisher | |
Pages | 173 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | Affect (Psychology) in literature |
ISBN | 9780814274897 |
Pets and Domesticity in Victorian Literature and Culture
Title | Pets and Domesticity in Victorian Literature and Culture PDF eBook |
Author | Monica Flegel |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 216 |
Release | 2015-02-11 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1317564863 |
Addressing the significance of the pet in the Victorian period, this book examines the role played by the domestic pet in delineating relations for each member of the "natural" family home. Flegel explores the pet in relation to the couple at the head of the house, to the children who make up the family’s dependents, and to the common familial "outcasts" who populate Victorian literature and culture: the orphan, the spinster, the bachelor, and the same-sex couple. Drawing upon both animal studies and queer theory, this study stresses the importance of the domestic pet in elucidating normative sexuality and (re)productivity within the familial home, and reveals how the family pet operates as a means of identifying aberrant, failed, or perverse familial and gender performances. The family pet, that is, was an important signifier in Victorian familial ideology of the individual family unit’s ability to support or threaten the health and morality of the nation in the Victorian period. Texts by authors such as Clara Balfour, Juliana Horatia Ewing, E. Burrows, Bessie Rayner Parkes, Anne Brontë, George Eliot, Frederick Marryat, and Charles Dickens speak to the centrality of the domestic pet to negotiations of gender, power, and sexuality within the home that both reify and challenge the imaginary structure known as the natural family in the Victorian period. This book highlights the possibilities for a familial elsewhere outside of normative and restrictive models of heterosexuality, reproduction, and the natural family, and will be of interest to those studying Victorian literature and culture, animal studies, queer studies, and beyond.