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.
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.
Minor Creatures
Title | Minor Creatures PDF eBook |
Author | Ivan Kreilkamp |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 228 |
Release | 2018-11-07 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 022657637X |
In the nineteenth century, richly-drawn social fiction became one of England’s major cultural exports. At the same time, a surprising companion came to stand alongside the novel as a key embodiment of British identity: the domesticated pet. In works by authors from the Brontës to Eliot, from Dickens to Hardy, animals appeared as markers of domestic coziness and familial kindness. Yet for all their supposed significance, the animals in nineteenth-century fiction were never granted the same fullness of character or consciousness as their human masters: they remain secondary figures. Minor Creatures re-examines a slew of literary classics to show how Victorian notions of domesticity, sympathy, and individuality were shaped in response to the burgeoning pet class. The presence of beloved animals in the home led to a number of welfare-minded political movements, inspired in part by the Darwinian thought that began to sprout at the time. Nineteenth-century animals may not have been the heroes of their own lives but, as Kreilkamp shows, the history of domestic pets deeply influenced the history of the English novel.
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.
The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Animals
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Animals PDF eBook |
Author | Derek Ryan |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 309 |
Release | 2023-08-31 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1009300008 |
The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Animals surveys the role of animals across literary history and opens conversations on what literature can teach us about more-than-human life. Leading international scholars comprehensively explore how engaging with creatures of various kinds alters our understanding of what it means to write and read, and why this is important for thinking about a series of cultural, ethical, political, and scientific developments and controversies. The first part of the book offers historically rooted arguments about medieval metamorphosis, early modern fleshiness, eighteenth-century imperialism, Romantic sympathy, Victorian racial politics, modernist otherness and contemporary forms. The second part poses questions that cut across periods, concerning habitat and extinction, captivity and spectatorship, race and (post-)coloniality, sexuality and gender, religion and law, health and wealth. In doing so, this companion places animals at the centre of literary studies and literature at the heart of urgent debates in the growing field of animal studies.
Beastly Natures
Title | Beastly Natures PDF eBook |
Author | Dorothee Brantz |
Publisher | University of Virginia Press |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 2010-07-08 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0813929474 |
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Victorian Writers and the Environment
Title | Victorian Writers and the Environment PDF eBook |
Author | Laurence W. Mazzeno |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 278 |
Release | 2016-12-08 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1317002016 |
Applying ecocritical theory to the work of Victorian writers, this collection explores what a diversity of ecocritical approaches can offer students and scholars of Victorian literature, at the same time that it critiques the general effectiveness of ecocritical theory. Interdisciplinary in their approach, the essays take up questions related to the nonhuman, botany, landscape, evolutionary science, and religion. The contributors cast a wide net in terms of genre, analyzing novels, poetry, periodical works, botanical literature, life-writing, and essays. Focusing on a wide range of canonical and noncanonical writers, including Charles Dickens, the Brontes, John Ruskin, Christina Rossetti, Jane Webb Loudon, Anna Sewell, and Richard Jefferies, Victorian Writers and the Environment demonstrates the ways in which nineteenth-century authors engaged not only with humans’ interaction with the environment during the Victorian period, but also how some authors anticipated more recent attitudes toward the environment.