Animals In Victorian Literature And Culture

Author : Deborah Denenholz Morse,Martin A. Danahay
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351875950

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Victorian Animal Dreams by Deborah Denenholz Morse,Martin A. Danahay Pdf

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.

Author : Laurence W. Mazzeno,Ronald D. Morrison
Publisher : Springer
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137602190

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Animals in Victorian Literature and Culture by Laurence W. Mazzeno,Ronald D. Morrison Pdf

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.

Author : Brenda Ayres,Sarah Elizabeth Maier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Animals in literature
ISBN : 0367416107

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Animals and Their Children in Victorian Culture by Brenda Ayres,Sarah Elizabeth Maier Pdf

Animals and Their Children in Victorian Culture is a collection of original essays that explore the representation of animals in children's literature. It focuses on the influence of animals to civilize children (and not the animals) in moral ethics and proper Victorian behavior, especially regarding human treatment of animals.

Author : Monica Flegel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317564867

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Pets and Domesticity in Victorian Literature and Culture by Monica Flegel Pdf

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.

Author : Brenda Ayres,Sarah Elizabeth Maier
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000760125

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Animals and Their Children in Victorian Culture by Brenda Ayres,Sarah Elizabeth Maier Pdf

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.

Author : Anna Feuerstein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108492966

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The Political Lives of Victorian Animals by Anna Feuerstein Pdf

Examines how liberal thought influenced representations of animals within nineteenth-century animal welfare discourse and the Victorian novel.

Author : Laurence Talairach
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030725273

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Animals, Museum Culture and Children’s Literature in Nineteenth-Century Britain by Laurence Talairach Pdf

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.

Author : Ivan Kreilkamp
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226576374

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Minor Creatures by Ivan Kreilkamp Pdf

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.

Author : Brenda Ayers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780429768675

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Victorians and Their Animals by Brenda Ayers Pdf

This book, Victorians and Their Animals: Beast on a Leash, investigates the notion that British Victorians did see themselves as naturally dominant species over other humans and over animals. They conscientiously, hegemonically were determined to rule those beneath them and the animal within themselves albeit with varying degrees of success and failure. The articles in this collection apply posthuman and other theories, including queer, postcolonialism, deconstruction, and Marxism, in their exploration of Victorian attitudes toward animals. They study the biopolitical relationships between human and nonhuman animals in several key Victorian literary works. Some of this book’s chapters deal with animal ethics and moral aesthetics. Also being studied is the representation of animals in several Victorian novels as narrative devices to signify class status and gender dynamics, either to iterate socially acceptable mores or to satirize hypocrisy or breach of behavior or to voice social protest. All of the chapters analyse the interdependence of people and animals during the nineteenth century.

Author : Keridiana Chez
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Affect (Psychology) in literature
ISBN : 0814274897

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Victorian Dogs, Victorian Men by Keridiana Chez Pdf

Author : Sarah Amato
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442617605

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Beastly Possessions by Sarah Amato Pdf

In Beastly Possessions, Sarah Amato chronicles the unusual ways in which Victorians of every social class brought animals into their daily lives. Captured, bred, exhibited, collected, and sold, ordinary pets and exotic creatures – as well as their representations – became commodities within Victorian Britain’s flourishing consumer culture. As a pet, an animal could be a companion, a living parlour decoration, and proof of a household’s social and moral status. In the zoo, it could become a public pet, an object of curiosity, a symbol of empire, or even a consumer mascot. Either kind of animal might be painted, photographed, or stuffed as a taxidermic specimen. Using evidence ranging from pet-keeping manuals and scientific treatises to novels, guidebooks, and ephemera, this fascinating, well-illustrated study opens a window into an underexplored aspect of life in Victorian Britain.

Author : Tamara S. Ketabgian
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472051403

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The Lives of Machines by Tamara S. Ketabgian Pdf

DIVExpanded views of the connection between humans and machines in the Victorian era/div

Author : Gina M. Dorré
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351875899

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Victorian Fiction and the Cult of the Horse by Gina M. Dorré Pdf

The horse was essential to the workings of Victorian society, and its representations, which are vast, ranging, and often contradictory, comprise a vibrant cult of the horse. Examining the representational, emblematic, and rhetorical uses of horses in a diversity of nineteenth-century texts, Gina M. Dorré shows how discourses about horses reveal and negotiate anxieties related to industrialism and technology, constructions of gender and sexuality, ruptures in the social fabric caused by class conflict and mobility, and changes occasioned by national "progress" and imperial expansion. She argues that as a cultural object, the horse functions as a repository of desire and despair in a society rocked by astonishing social, economic, and technological shifts. While representations of horses abound in Victorian fiction, Gina M. Dorré's study focuses on those novels by Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Braddon, Anna Sewell, and George Moore that engage with the most impassioned controversies concerning horses and horse-care, such as the introduction of the steam engine, popular new methods of horse-taming, debates over the tight-reining of horses, and the moral furor surrounding gambling at the race track. Her book establishes the centrality of the horse as a Victorian cultural icon and explores how through it, dominant ideologies of gender and class are created, promoted, and disrupted.

Author : Jessica Straley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107127524

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Evolution and Imagination in Victorian Children's Literature by Jessica Straley Pdf

An interdisciplinary study that explores the impact of evolutionary theory on Victorian children's literature.

Author : Krishanu Maiti
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030761592

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Posthumanist Perspectives on Literary and Cultural Animals by Krishanu Maiti Pdf

This book offers Posthumanist readings of animal-centric literary and cultural texts. The contributors put the precepts and premises of humanism into question by seriously considering the animal presence in texts. The essays collected here focus primarily on literary and cultural texts from varied theoretically informed interdisciplinary perspectives advanced by critical approaches such as Critical Animal Studies and Posthumanism. Contributors select texts that cut across geographical and period boundaries and demonstrate how practices of close reading give rise to new ways of thinking about animals. By implicating the “animal turn” in the field of literary and cultural studies, this book urges us to problematize the separation of the human from other animals and rethink the hierarchical order of beings through close readings of select texts. It offers fresh perspectives on Posthumanist theory, inviting readers to revisit those criteria that created species’ difference from the early ages of human civilization. This book constitutes a rich and thorough scholarly resource on the politics of representation of animals in literature and culture. The essays in this book are empirically and theoretically informed and explore a range of dynamic, captivating, and highly relevant topics. Comprising over 15 chapters by a team of international contributors, this book is divided into four parts: Contestation over Species Hierarchy and CategorizationAnimal (Re)constructionsInterspecies RelationalitiesIntersectionality- Animal and Gender This book will be essential reading for students and researchers of Critical Animal Studies and Environmental Studies.