Victorians and their animals : beast on a leash /
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 w...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Routledge,
2019.
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| Series: | Perspectives on the non-human in literature and culture.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Beast on a leash / Brenda Ayres
- Gaskell's activism and animal agency / Brenda Ayres
- Old and new beef: caring for animals in household words / Liam Young
- George Eliot's use of horses in measuring the moral maturity of characters in her novels / Constance M. Fulmer
- Pigs in great expectations: class, dehumanization, and Marxist animal studies / Jessica Kuskey
- Ants, insects, and automatons: classifying Hardy's creatures in the return of the native / Anna West
- It's raining cats and dogs in George Eliot's novels / Brenda Ayres
- A fine kettle of fish: cultural (and culinary) preservation in Anglo-Jewish ghetto stories / Lindsay Katzir
- Gendered metamorphoses in Richard Marsh's The beetle and the natural history museum / Pandora Syperek
- The "animality" of speech and translation in the jungle books / Christie Harner.