Beastly Possessions

Author : Sarah Amato
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 49,5 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 : Donna Leon
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780802194503

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Beastly Things by Donna Leon Pdf

A New York Times bestseller: The police investigate the death of a veterinarian in Venice, Italy in this “swiftly paced” mystery (The Seattle Times). When the body of man is found in a canal, damaged by the tides, carrying no wallet, and wearing only one shoe, Guido Brunetti has little to work with. No local has filed a missing-person report, and no hotel guests have disappeared. The autopsy shows he had suffered from a rare, disfiguring disease. A shopkeeper tells Brunetti that the man had a kindly way with animals. Finally, the victim is identified as a much-loved veterinarian—and Brunetti’s quest to find the killer will take him on a harrowing journey . . . “All her trademark strengths shine in this swiftly paced, sophisticated tale of greed versus ethics.” —The Seattle Times “Written with such delicacy and emotional force that we can’t help but be reminded of Greek tragedy.” —Booklist, starred review

Author : Sarah Amato
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : POLITICAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 1442617594

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Beastly Possessions by Sarah Amato Pdf

Author : Wiley Miller
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-05
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780740798672

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Non Sequitur's Beastly Things by Wiley Miller Pdf

If a cartoonist successfully captures life's humorous and ironic moments in three short panels, readers applaud. When Wiley does the same in his single-scene format, they roll on the carpet laughing. Non Sequitur not only breaks the three-panel mold, it succeeds without regular characters, standard settings, or repeat situations to fall back on. Each piece, in other words, hangs out there as Wiley's snapshot of the worlds of work, leisure, and life's many crossroads. Non Sequitur's Beastly Things, as guided by Rolf the dog, keeps readers howling, growling, and scratching for more. You will delight, for instance, in crocodiles luring fishermen with dollar bills, Randy the science lab kid who announces that his homework ate his dog, and the desert dweller who celebrates the change of season by raking needles beneath his cacti.

Author : Alison Hedley
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487506735

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Making Pictorial Print by Alison Hedley Pdf

Applying media theory to late-Victorian print, Making Pictorial Print shows how popular illustrated magazines developed a new design interface that encouraged dynamic engagement and media literacy in the British public.

Author : Alixe Bovey
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0802085121

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Monsters and Grotesques in Medieval Manuscripts by Alixe Bovey Pdf

Images of monstrosities pervade art and culture in the Middle Ages, and for medieval people they must have been a tantalizing suggestion of unknown worlds and unthinkable dangers.

Author : Elizabeth Young
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780271085111

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Pet Projects by Elizabeth Young Pdf

In Pet Projects, Elizabeth Young joins an analysis of the representation of animals in nineteenth-century fiction, taxidermy, and the visual arts with a first-person reflection on her own scholarly journey. Centering on Margaret Marshall Saunders, a Canadian woman writer once famous for her animal novels, and incorporating Young’s own experience of a beloved animal’s illness, this study highlights the personal and intellectual stakes of a “pet project” of cultural criticism. Young assembles a broad archive of materials, beginning with Saunders’s novels and widening outward to include fiction, nonfiction, photography, and taxidermy. She coins the term “first-dog voice” to describe the narrative technique of novels, such as Saunders’s Beautiful Joe, written in the first person from the perspective of an animal. She connects this voice to contemporary political issues, revealing how animal fiction such as Saunders’s reanimates nineteenth-century writing about both feminism and slavery. Highlighting the prominence of taxidermy in the late nineteenth century, she suggests that Saunders transforms taxidermic techniques in surprising ways that provide new forms of authority for women. Young adapts Freud to analyze literary representations of mourning by and for animals, and she examines how Canadian writers, including Saunders, use animals to explore race, ethnicity, and national identity. Her wide-ranging investigation incorporates twenty-first as well as nineteenth-century works of literature and culture, including recent art using taxidermy and contemporary film. Throughout, she reflects on the tools she uses to craft her analyses, examining the state of scholarly fields from feminist criticism to animal studies. With a lively, first-person voice that highlights experiences usually concealed in academic studies by scholarly discourse—such as detours, zigzags, roadblocks, and personal experience—this unique and innovative book will delight animal enthusiasts and academics in the fields of animal studies, gender studies, American studies, and Canadian studies.

Author : Julie McCown
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781646421978

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On the Plains, and Among the Peaks by Julie McCown Pdf

American naturalist and taxidermist Martha Maxwell became famous in the 1870s for her skill and expertise in collecting and preserving specimens of Colorado’s wildlife but is virtually unknown today. On the Plains, and Among the Peaks, written in 1879 by Maxwell’s half-sister Mary Dartt, provides a fascinating case study of how women practiced natural history and taxidermy, as well as a fresh look at the early exploration and settlement of Colorado. Dartt’s book tells the story of Maxwell’s lifelong passion and dedication to work and education that made her a pioneer in more ways than one. It catalogs her important scientific contributions and development of museum habitat groupings and lifelike taxidermy mounts, showcases engaging accounts of wilderness excursions on the frontier of the Western United States in the 1860s and 1870s, and testifies to her resolve to show that women were capable of succeeding in traditionally male-dominated fields. This scholarly edition of On the Plains, and Among the Peaks will spark renewed interest in Maxwell and Dartt as neglected figures in nineteenth-century US history and literature, opening a conversation that other literary scholars and historians will join to further situate their work within the numerous disciplines to which it speaks, including nineteenth-century American literature; women’s, western, environmental, and natural history; and gender, museum, and animal studies.

Author : Horace Walpole
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783732641437

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The Gods and Mr. Perrin by Horace Walpole Pdf

Reproduction of the original: The Gods and Mr. Perrin by Horace Walpole

Author : Chris Pearson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226798165

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Dogopolis by Chris Pearson Pdf

Straying -- Biting -- Suffering -- Thinking -- Defecating.

Author : Laurence W. Mazzeno,Ronald D. Morrison
Publisher : Springer
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 40,6 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 : Mieke Roscher,André Krebber,Brett Mizelle
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 647 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110536553

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Handbook of Historical Animal Studies by Mieke Roscher,André Krebber,Brett Mizelle Pdf

Author : James Walker,David Clinnick,Helen Drinkall,Stephanie Piper
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781785709494

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Wild Things 2.0 by James Walker,David Clinnick,Helen Drinkall,Stephanie Piper Pdf

Building on the first Wild Things volume (Oxbow Books 2014), which aimed to showcase the research putting archaeologists researching the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic at the cutting edge of understanding humanity’s past, this collection of contributions presents recent research from an international group of both early career and established scientists. Covering aspects of both Palaeolithic and Mesolithic research in order to encourage dialogue between practitioners of archaeology of both periods, contributions are also geographically diverse, touching on British, European, North American, and Asian archaeology. Topics covered include transitional periods, deer and people, stone tool technologies, pottery, land-use, antler frontlets, and the development of prehistoric archaeology an 'age of wonder'.

Author : Robert L. Patten,John O. Jordan,Catherine Waters
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-13
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780191061110

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The Oxford Handbook of Charles Dickens by Robert L. Patten,John O. Jordan,Catherine Waters Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Charles Dickens is a comprehensive and up-to-date collection on Dickens's life and works. It includes original chapters on all of Dickens's writing and new considerations of his contexts, from the social, political, and economic to the scientific, commercial, and religious. The contributions speak in new ways about his depictions of families, environmental degradation, and improvements of the industrial age, as well as the law, charity, and communications. His treatment of gender, his mastery of prose in all its varieties and genres, and his range of affects and dramatization all come under stimulating reconsideration. His understanding of British history, of empire and colonization, of his own nation and foreign ones, and of selfhood and otherness, like all the other topics, is explained in terms easy to comprehend and profoundly relevant to global modernity.

Author : Alexander P. M. van den Bosch
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 537 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780244659325

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Welcome by Alexander P. M. van den Bosch Pdf