The Political Lives Of Victorian Animals
Download The Political Lives Of Victorian Animals full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online free The Political Lives Of Victorian Animals ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
The Political Lives of Victorian Animals
Author | : Anna Feuerstein |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2019-07-04 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781108492966 |
Download The Political Lives of Victorian Animals Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Examines how liberal thought influenced representations of animals within nineteenth-century animal welfare discourse and the Victorian novel.
City of Beasts
Author | : Thomas Almeroth-Williams |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2020-06-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1526150328 |
Download City of Beasts Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This book offers a panoramic view of Georgian London, redefining the city's role in the industrial, agricultural and consumer revolutions. It does this by examining, for the first time, the huge contribution that horses, cattle, sheep, pigs and dogs made to the world's first modern metropolis, as well as the serious challenges the animals posed.
Victorian Animal Dreams
Author | : Deborah Denenholz Morse,Martin A. Danahay |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2017-05-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781351875950 |
Download Victorian Animal Dreams Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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.
Minor Creatures
Author | : Ivan Kreilkamp |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2018-11-07 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780226576374 |
Download Minor Creatures Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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.
Music and Victorian Liberalism
Author | : Sarah Collins |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 269 |
Release | : 2019-06-06 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781108480055 |
Download Music and Victorian Liberalism Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Examines the interaction between music and liberal discourses in Victorian Britain, revealing the close interdependence of political and aesthetic practices.
Animals in Victorian Literature and Culture
Author | : Laurence W. Mazzeno,Ronald D. Morrison |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2017-02-20 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781137602190 |
Download Animals in Victorian Literature and Culture Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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.
The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Animals
Author | : Derek Ryan |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 309 |
Release | : 2023-08-31 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781009300001 |
Download The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Animals Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Animals surveys the role of animals across literary history and opens conversations on what literature can teach us about more-than-human life. Leading international scholars comprehensively explore how engaging with creatures of various kinds alters our understanding of what it means to write and read, and why this is important for thinking about a series of cultural, ethical, political, and scientific developments and controversies. The first part of the book offers historically rooted arguments about medieval metamorphosis, early modern fleshiness, eighteenth-century imperialism, Romantic sympathy, Victorian racial politics, modernist otherness and contemporary forms. The second part poses questions that cut across periods, concerning habitat and extinction, captivity and spectatorship, race and (post-)coloniality, sexuality and gender, religion and law, health and wealth. In doing so, this companion places animals at the centre of literary studies and literature at the heart of urgent debates in the growing field of animal studies.
Biopolitics and Animal Species in Nineteenth Century Literature and Science
Author | : Matthew Rowlinson |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2024-02 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781009409957 |
Download Biopolitics and Animal Species in Nineteenth Century Literature and Science Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Centring on Darwin and on literature throughout the nineteenth century, this book documents a general crisis in the species concept.