At home and astray : the domestic dog in Victorian Britain /
"Although the British consider themselves a nation of dog lovers, what we have come to know as the modern dog came into existence only after a profound, and relatively recent, transformation in that country's social attitudes and practices. In At Home and Astray, Philip Howell focuses on V...
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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press,
[2015]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: A public life for a private animal
- Dogs in Dickensland: at home and astray with the Landseer of fiction
- Flush and the banditti: dog stealing in Victorian London
- Finding a forever home?: the Home for Lost and Starving Dogs
- The descent of the dog: domesticating and undomesticating Darwinism
- A place for the animal dead: animal souls, pet cemeteries, and the heavenly home
- Assembling the dog-walking city: rabies, muzzling, and the freedom to be led
- Conclusion.