Victorian Cat Family
Title | Victorian Cat Family PDF eBook |
Author | Evelyn Gathings |
Publisher | Courier Dover Publications |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1984 |
Genre | Cats |
ISBN | 9780486247021 |
Dress this feline family of 4 dolls in a wardrobe of full-color Victorian fashions and send them on adventures to the park, to the beach, to parties and more. 16 plates of color illustrations.
Victorian Cat Family-Paper Dolls
Title | Victorian Cat Family-Paper Dolls PDF eBook |
Author | Evelyn Gathings |
Publisher | Turtleback |
Pages | |
Release | 1984-08-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780613843492 |
Dress this feline family of dolls in a wardrobe of full-color Victorian fashions and send them on adventures to the park, to the beach, to parties and more. 16 plates of color illustrations.
A Victorian Cat's Journal
Title | A Victorian Cat's Journal PDF eBook |
Author | Susan Herbert |
Publisher | Boston : Little, Brown |
Pages | 64 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780821218655 |
Paintings of domestic scenes featuring a family of cats and journal entries by the family matriarch present a satirical album of Victorian family life
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.
The Victorian Cat
Title | The Victorian Cat PDF eBook |
Author | Sted Mays |
Publisher | Random House Value Pub |
Pages | 58 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Cats |
ISBN | 9780517147276 |
Bringing together some of the most colorful passages of cat-lore written during Queen Victoria's reign, a gift book for feline aficionados includes works by Edgar Allen Poe, Lewis Carroll, Emily Dickinson, and Edward Lear.
Parlor Cats
Title | Parlor Cats PDF eBook |
Author | Cynthia Hart |
Publisher | Workman Publishing |
Pages | 96 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Pets |
ISBN | 9781563051180 |
Generously quotating from poetry, nursery rhymes, and popular authors, Banks recounts the love affair between the Victorians and their cats--personified as the epitome of domestic virtue. Full-color photographs throughout.
Pets in America
Title | Pets in America PDF eBook |
Author | Katherine C. Grier |
Publisher | UNC Press Books |
Pages | 390 |
Release | 2010-11-15 |
Genre | Pets |
ISBN | 080787714X |
Entertaining and informative, Pets in America is a portrait of Americans' relationships with the cats, dogs, birds, fishes, rodents, and other animals we call our own. More than 60 percent of U.S. households have pets, and America grows more pet-friendly every day. But as Katherine C. Grier demonstrates, the ways we talk about and treat our pets--as companions, as children, and as objects of beauty, status, or pleasure--have their origins long ago. Grier begins with a natural history of animals as pets, then discusses the changing role of pets in family life, new standards of animal welfare, the problems presented by borderline cases such as livestock pets, and the marketing of both animals and pet products. She focuses particularly on the period between 1840 and 1940, when the emotional, behavioral, and commercial characteristics of contemporary pet keeping were established. The story is filled with the warmth and humor of anecdotes from period diaries, letters, catalogs, and newspapers. Filled with illustrations reflecting the whimsy, the devotion, and the commerce that have shaped centuries of American pet keeping, Pets in America ultimately shows how the history of pets has evolved alongside changing ideas about human nature, child development, and community life. This book accompanies a museum exhibit, "Pets in America," which opens at the McKissick Museum in Columbia, South Carolina, in December 2005 and will travel to five other cities from May 2006 through May 2008.