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Animals and their children in Victorian culture /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Ayres, Brenda, 1953- (Editor, Contributor), Maier, Sarah E. (Sarah Elizabeth), 1968- (Editor, Contributor), Alves, Alicia (Contributor), Basdeo, Stephen (Contributor), Chez, Keridiana (Contributor), Clapp-Itnyre, Alisa (Contributor), Harner, Christie (Contributor), Hoult-Saros, Stacy (Contributor), Katzir, Brandon (Contributor), Katzir, Linsday (Contributor), Koustinoudi, Anna (Contributor), Nance, Susan (Contributor), Scott, Shannon F. (Contributor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, New York : Routledge, 2020.
Series:Perspectives on the non-human in literature and culture.
Subjects:
Animals in literature > History and criticism > 19th century.
Children's literature > History and criticism > 19th century.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : little beasts on tight leashes / Brenda Ayres ; Sarah E. Maier
  • Why did the cow jump over the moon? : animals (but mostly pussies) in nursery rhymes / Brenda Ayres
  • Wanted dead or alive : rabbits in Victorian children's literature / Keridiana Chez
  • "In friendly chat with bird or beast...mixing together things grave and gay" : desireful animals and humans in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass / Anna Koustinoudi
  • A brotherhood of wolves : loyalty in Yiddish and Anglo-Jewish folktales / Lindsay Katzir ; Brandon Katzir
  • Advocating for the least of these : empowering children and animals in The Band of Mercy Advocate / Alisa Clapp-Itnyre
  • Bush animals, developmental time, and colonial identity in Victorian Australian children's fiction / Christie Harner
  • The serpent ; or, The real king of the jungle / Stephen Basdeo
  • Learning masculinity : education, boyhood, and the animal in Thomas Hughes's Tom Brown's School Days / Alicia Alves
  • Unruly females on the farm : domestic animal mothers and the dismantling of the species hierarchy in nineteenth-century literature for children / Stacy Hoult-Saros
  • The child is father of the man : lessons animals teach children in George Eliot's writings / Constance M. Fulmer
  • Neither brutes nor beasts : animals, children, and young persons and/in the Brontës / Sarah E. Maier
  • Children, animals, and the fantasies of the circus / Susan Nance
  • Imperial pets : monkey-girls, man-cubs, and dog-faced boys on exhibition in Victorian Britain / Shannon Scott.