Author : Anna Feuerstein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 33,60 MB
Release : 2019-07-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108492967
Examines how liberal thought influenced representations of animals within nineteenth-century animal welfare discourse and the Victorian novel.
Author : Thomas Almeroth-Williams
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,42 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Animals
ISBN : 9781526126351
Moving away from the philosophical, fictional, and humanitarian sources used by previous animal studies, this work focuses on the role of animals--horses, cattle, sheep, pigs, and dogs--in shaping Georgian London.an London.
Author : Ivan Kreilkamp
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 37,36 MB
Release : 2018-11-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 022657637X
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.
Author : Dorothee Brantz
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 24,64 MB
Release : 2010-07-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0813929474
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Author : Derek Ryan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 30,75 MB
Release : 2023-08-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1009300008
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.
Author : Sarah Collins
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 32,97 MB
Release : 2019-06-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 1108480055
Examines the interaction between music and liberal discourses in Victorian Britain, revealing the close interdependence of political and aesthetic practices.
Author : Laurence W. Mazzeno
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 25,5 MB
Release : 2016-12-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1317002016
Applying ecocritical theory to the work of Victorian writers, this collection explores what a diversity of ecocritical approaches can offer students and scholars of Victorian literature, at the same time that it critiques the general effectiveness of ecocritical theory. Interdisciplinary in their approach, the essays take up questions related to the nonhuman, botany, landscape, evolutionary science, and religion. The contributors cast a wide net in terms of genre, analyzing novels, poetry, periodical works, botanical literature, life-writing, and essays. Focusing on a wide range of canonical and noncanonical writers, including Charles Dickens, the Brontes, John Ruskin, Christina Rossetti, Jane Webb Loudon, Anna Sewell, and Richard Jefferies, Victorian Writers and the Environment demonstrates the ways in which nineteenth-century authors engaged not only with humans’ interaction with the environment during the Victorian period, but also how some authors anticipated more recent attitudes toward the environment.
Author : Matthew Rowlinson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 12,6 MB
Release : 2024-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1009409956
Centring on Darwin and on literature throughout the nineteenth century, this book documents a general crisis in the species concept.
Author : Kevin Morrison
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 20,79 MB
Release : 2021-05-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1000382230
Some of the most celebrated poets of the Victorian era wrote—at times movingly or humorously—about their pets. They did so in a wider literary context, for poetry about pets was ubiquitous in the period. Animal welfare organizations utilized poems about canine and feline suffering in institutional publications to call attention to various abuses. Elegies and epitaphs over the loss of a beloved cat, songbird, or dog were printed on funeral cards, tombstones, and appeared in mass-produced poetry collections as well as those intended for an intimate circle of friends. Yet poems about pets, as well as attendant issues such as breeding and overpopulation, have not received the kind of critical analysis devoted to fictional works and short stories. With an introduction, afterword, and eight essays offering new perspectives on significant as well as lesser known poems, Victorian Pets and Poetry remedies this omission.
Author : James C. Turner
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 20,46 MB
Release : 2000-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801866777
Historian James Turner focuses on the great rise of Victorian concern for the humane treatment of animals, one of the most noteworthy flowering of such sentiment in modern times and one that engaged the support of the rich and the powerful, of church dignitaries, peers and ministers, and the queen herself. In delving into the history of animal rights, he also offers a fresh perspective on such varied aspects of Victorian culture as attitudes toward sex, pain, child labor, women, poverty, and science. Turner draws on extensive researh in the archives of a animal protection societies, literature of the period, and controversial writings on the treatment of animals. He argues that the dual shocks of industrialization and urbanization helped produce a deeper emotional identification with the natural world. Scientists of the day, proclaiming that human beings were close kin to beasts, not only encouraged but demanded considerate treatment for animals, a sentiment that reached its liveliest expression in the antivivisection controversy. By the turn of the century, the author demonstrates, new conceptions of human nature adn heightened sensitivity even to the plight of lower life-forms were contributing to a new understanding of man's place in nature.
