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- Book Title
- Victorians and Their Animals: Beast on a Leash
- Publication Date
- 2018-12-04
- Pages
- 228
- ISBN
- 9781138359567
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Routledge
ISBN-10
1138359564
ISBN-13
9781138359567
eBay Product ID (ePID)
20038763753
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
212 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Victorians and Their Animals
Publication Year
2018
Subject
Subjects & Themes / Nature, Modern / 19th Century, Europe / Great Britain / General, Animals / General, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism, Nature, History
Series
Perspectives on the Non-Human in Literature and Culture Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
20.5 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
College Audience
LCCN
2018-033723
Reviews
As expected, this collection validates a concern for the inherent value of animals. But the additional inclusion of leashing the beast within ourselves in light of contradictory social impulses adds an interesting and necessary perspective to a collection on Victorian human/nonhuman relationships. -- Dr. Randi Pahlau, Malone University As people today grapple with issues like their own humanity, their responsibility for the planet, their relationships to other species along with various kinds of reciprocity, how humans have considered these relations in the past is becoming more relevant - and in fact, more urgent to think deeply about. As Ayres explains, the conflicted and conflicting Victorian ideas about animals are valuable as 21stcentury people consider our fraught relations with the planet today. - Heather Fitzsimmons Frey, York University, Canada, "As expected, this collection validates a concern for the inherent value of animals. But the additional inclusion of leashing the beast within ourselves in light of contradictory social impulses adds an interesting and necessary perspective to a collection on Victorian human/nonhuman relationships." Dr. Randi Pahlau, Malone University, USA "As people today grapple with issues like their own humanity, their responsibility for the planet, their relationships to other species along with various kinds of reciprocity, how humans have considered these relations in the past is becoming more relevant - and in fact, more urgent to think deeply about. As Ayres explains, the conflicted and conflicting Victorian ideas about animals are valuable as twenty-first-century people consider our fraught relations with the planet today." Heather Fitzsimmons Frey, York University, Canada
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
820.9/36209034
Table Of Content
List of Figures Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction: Beast on a Leash BRENDA AYRES 1 Gaskell's Activism and Animal Agency BRENDA AYRES 2Old and New Beef: Caring for Animals in Household Words LIAM YOUNG 3 George Eliot's Use of Horses in Measuring the Moral Maturity of Characters in Her Novels CONSTANCE M. FULMER 4Pigs in Great Expectations : Class, Dehumanization, and Marxist Animal Studies JESSICA KUSKEY 5 Ants, Insects, and Automatons: Classifying Creatures in Hardy's The Return of the Native ANNA WEST 6 It's Raining Cats and Dogs in the Novels of George Eliot BRENDA AYRES 7 A Fine Kettle of Fish: Cultural (and Culinary) Preservation in Anglo-Jewish Ghetto Stories LINDSAY KATZIR 8 Gendered Metamorphoses in the Natural History Museum and Trans-Animality in Richard Marsh's The Beetle PANDORA SYPEREK 9 The "Animality" of Speech and Translation in The Jungle Books CHRISTIE HARNER Notes on Contributors Index EY 5 Ants, Insects, and Automatons: Classifying Creatures in Hardy's The Return of the Native ANNA WEST 6 It's Raining Cats and Dogs in the Novels of George Eliot BRENDA AYRES 7 A Fine Kettle of Fish: Cultural (and Culinary) Preservation in Anglo-Jewish Ghetto Stories LINDSAY KATZIR 8 Gendered Metamorphoses in the Natural History Museum and Trans-Animality in Richard Marsh's The Beetle PANDORA SYPEREK 9 The "Animality" of Speech and Translation in The Jungle Books CHRISTIE HARNER Notes on Contributors Index CHRISTIE HARNER Notes on Contributors Index
Synopsis
Victorians and Their Animals: Beast on a Leash investigates the notion that British Victorians did see themselves as a naturally dominant species over other humans and over animals. They were conscientiously, hegemonically 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 posthumanism and other theories, including queer, postcolonialist, deconstructionist, and Marxist approaches 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, to satirize hypocrisy or breach of behavior or to voice social protest. All of the chapters analyze the interdependence of people and animals during the nineteenth century., Victorians and Their Animals: Beast on a Leash investigates the notion that British Victorians did see themselves as a naturally dominant species over other humans and over animals. They were conscientiously, hegemonically 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 posthumanism and other theories, including queer, postcolonialist, deconstructionist, and Marxist approaches 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, to satirize hypocrisy or breach of behavior or to voice social protest. All of the chapters analyze the interdependence of people and animals during the nineteenth century. social protest. All of the chapters analyze the interdependence of people and animals during the nineteenth century.
LC Classification Number
PR468.A56V54 2018
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