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Victorian Animal Dreams

Deborah Denenholz Morse,Martin A. Danahay
Victorian Animal Dreams Book PDF

Author : Deborah Denenholz Morse,Martin A. Danahay
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 43,7 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.

Teaching the Animal

Margo DeMello
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Author : Margo DeMello
Publisher : Lantern Books
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781590562611

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Split into three sections, Teaching the Animal provides in-depth analysis of the nature of the discipline, the resources available, expectations of students and faculty, and a number of sample curricula in the fields of humanities, social sciences, and the natural sciences.

The Political Lives of Victorian Animals

Anna Feuerstein
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Author : Anna Feuerstein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 43,5 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.

Victorians and Their Animals

Brenda Ayers
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Author : Brenda Ayers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 50,8 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.

Pets and Domesticity in Victorian Literature and Culture

Monica Flegel
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Author : Monica Flegel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 53,5 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.

Animal Visions

Susan Mary Pyke
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Author : Susan Mary Pyke
Publisher : Springer
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030038779

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Animal Visions by Susan Mary Pyke Pdf

Animal Visions considers how literature responds to the harms of anthropocentricism, working with Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights (1847) and various adaptations of this canonistic novel to show how posthumanist dream writing unsettles the privileging of the human species over other species. Two feminist and post-Freudian responses, Kathy Acker’s poem “Obsession” (1992) and Anne Carson’s “The Glass Essay” (1997) most strongly extend Brontë’s dream writing in this direction. Building on the trope of a ludic Cathy ghost who refuses the containment of logic and reason, these and other adaptations offer the gift of a radical peri-hysteria. This emotional excess is most clearly seen in Kate Bush’s music video “Wuthering Heights” (1978) and Peter Kosminsky’s film Wuthering Heights (1992). Such disturbances make space for a moor love that is particularly evident in Jane Urquhart’s novel Changing Heaven (1989) and, to a lesser extent Sylvia Plath’s poem, “Wuthering Heights” (1961). Brontë’s Wuthering Heights and its most productive afterings make space for co-affective relations between humans and other animal beings. Andrea Arnold’s film Wuthering Heights (2011) and Luis Buñuel’s Abismos de Pasión (1954) also highlight the rupturing split gaze of non-acting animals in their films. In all of these works depictions of intra-active and entangled responses between animals show the potential for dynamic and generative multispecies relations, where the human is one animal amongst the kin of the world.

Animals in Victorian Literature and Culture

Laurence W. Mazzeno,Ronald D. Morrison
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Author : Laurence W. Mazzeno,Ronald D. Morrison
Publisher : Springer
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 54,5 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.

Wild Animal Skins in Victorian Britain

Ann C. Colley
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Author : Ann C. Colley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134766451

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Wild Animal Skins in Victorian Britain by Ann C. Colley Pdf

What did the 13th Earl of Derby, his twenty-two-year-old niece, Manchester’s Belle Vue Zoo, and even some ordinary laborers all have in common? All were avid collectors and exhibitors of exotic, and frequently unruly, specimens. In her study of Britain’s craze for natural history collecting, Ann C. Colley makes extensive use of archival materials to examine the challenges, preoccupations, and disordered circumstances that attended the amassing of specimens from faraway places only vaguely known to the British public. As scientific institutions sent collectors to bring back exotic animals and birds for study and classification by anatomists and zoologist, it soon became apparent that collecting skins rather than live animals or birds was a relatively more manageable endeavor. Colley looks at the collecting, exhibiting, and portraying of animal skins to show their importance as trophies of empire and representations of identity. While a zoo might display skins to promote and glorify Britain’s colonial achievements, Colley suggests that the reality of collecting was characterized more by chaos than imperial order. For example, Edward Lear’s commissioned illustrations of the Earl of Derby’s extensive collection challenge the colonial’s or collector’s commanding gaze, while the Victorian public demonstrated a yearning to connect with their own wildness by touching the skins of animals. Colley concludes with a discussion of the metaphorical uses of wild skins by Gerard Manley Hopkins and other writers, exploring the idea of skin as a locus of memory and touch where one’s past can be traced in the same way that nineteenth-century mapmakers charted a landscape. Throughout the book Colley calls upon recent theories about the nature and function of skin and touch to structure her discussion of the Victorian fascination with wild animal skins.

Darwin and the Memory of the Human

Cannon Schmitt
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Author : Cannon Schmitt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009-05-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780521765602

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Darwin and the Memory of the Human by Cannon Schmitt Pdf

This book shows how Victorian naturalists transformed their encounters with South America into influential accounts of biological change.

Animals and Their Children in Victorian Culture

Brenda Ayres,Sarah Elizabeth Maier
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Author : Brenda Ayres,Sarah Elizabeth Maier
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 48,7 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.

Victorian Material Culture

Tatiana Kontou,Kara Tennant
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Author : Tatiana Kontou,Kara Tennant
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2022-07-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781315399966

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Victorian Material Culture by Tatiana Kontou,Kara Tennant Pdf

From chatelaines to whale blubber, ice making machines to stained glass, this six-volume collection will be of interest to the scholar, student or general reader alike - anyone who has an urge to learn more about Victorian things. The set brings together a range of primary sources on Victorian material culture and discusses the most significant developments in material history from across the nineteenth century. The collection will demonstrate the significance of objects in the everyday lives of the Victorians and addresses important questions about how we classify and categorise nineteenth-century things. This collection brings together a range of primary sources on Victorian material and culture. This volume, ‘Fashionable Things’, will focus on Victorian fads and fashions ranging from chatelains to insect jewellery.

Women Poets in the Victorian Era

Fabienne Moine
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Author : Fabienne Moine
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134776535

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Women Poets in the Victorian Era by Fabienne Moine Pdf

Examining the place of nature in Victorian women's poetry, Fabienne Moine explores the work of canonical and long-neglected women poets to show the myriad connections between women and nature during the period. At the same time, she challenges essentialist discourses that assume innate affinities between women and the natural world. Rather, Moine shows, Victorian women poets mobilised these alliances to defend common interests and express their engagement with social issues. While well-known poets such as Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Christina Rossetti are well-represented in Moine's study, she pays particular attention to lesser known writers such as Mary Howitt or Eliza Cook who were popular during their lifetimes or Edith Nesbit, whose verse has received scant critical attention so far. She also brings to the fore the poetry of many non-professional poets. Looking to their immediate cultural environments for inspiration, these women reconstructed the natural world in poems that raise questions about the validity and the scope of representations of nature, ultimately questioning or undermining social practices that mould and often fossilise cultural identities.

Gothic Animals

Ruth Heholt,Melissa Edmundson
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Author : Ruth Heholt,Melissa Edmundson
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783030345402

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Gothic Animals by Ruth Heholt,Melissa Edmundson Pdf

This book begins with the assumption that the presence of non-human creatures causes an always-already uncanny rift in human assumptions about reality. Exploring the dark side of animal nature and the ‘otherness’ of animals as viewed by humans, and employing cutting-edge theory on non-human animals, eco-criticism, literary and cultural theory, this book takes the Gothic genre into new territory. After the dissemination of Darwin’s theories of evolution, nineteenth-century fiction quickly picked up on the idea of the ‘animal within’. Here, the fear explored was of an unruly, defiant, degenerate and entirely amoral animality lying (mostly) dormant within all of us. However, non-humans and humans have other sorts of encounters, too, and even before Darwin, humans have often had an uneasy relationship with animals, which, as Donna Haraway puts it, have a way of ‘looking back’ at us. In this book, the focus is not on the ‘animal within’ but rather on the animal ‘with-out’: other and entirely incomprehensible.

Victorian Pets and Poetry

Kevin Morrison
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Author : Kevin Morrison
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000382235

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Victorian Pets and Poetry by Kevin Morrison Pdf

Some of the most celebrated poets of the Victorian era wrote—at times movingly or humorously—about their pets. They did so in a wider literary context, for poetry about pets was ubiquitous in the period. Animal welfare organizations utilized poems about canine and feline suffering in institutional publications to call attention to various abuses. Elegies and epitaphs over the loss of a beloved cat, songbird, or dog were printed on funeral cards, tombstones, and appeared in mass-produced poetry collections as well as those intended for an intimate circle of friends. Yet poems about pets, as well as attendant issues such as breeding and overpopulation, have not received the kind of critical analysis devoted to fictional works and short stories. With an introduction, afterword, and eight essays offering new perspectives on significant as well as lesser known poems, Victorian Pets and Poetry remedies this omission.

Victorian Vulgarity

Susan David Bernstein,Elsie B. Michie
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Author : Susan David Bernstein,Elsie B. Michie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351875837

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Victorian Vulgarity by Susan David Bernstein,Elsie B. Michie Pdf

Originally describing language use and class position, vulgarity became, over the course of the nineteenth century, a word with wider social implications. Variously associated with behavior, the possession of wealth, different races, sexuality and gender, the objects displayed in homes, and ways of thinking and feeling, vulgarity suggested matters of style, taste, and comportment. This collection examines the diverse ramifications of vulgarity in the four areas where it was most discussed in the nineteenth century: language use, changing social spaces, the emerging middle classes, and visual art. Exploring the dynamics of the term as revealed in dictionaries and grammars; Mayhew's London Labour and the London Poor; fiction by Dickens, Eliot, Gissing, and Trollope; essays, journalism, art, and art reviews, the contributors bring their formidable analytical skills to bear on this enticing and divisive concept. Taken together, these essays urge readers to consider the implications of vulgarity's troubled history for today's writers, critics, and artists.