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Victorians and Their Animals 1st Edition by Brenda Ayres ISBN B07H7NFBJ2 9780429768668

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Author(s): Brenda Ayres

Edition: 1

File Details: PDF, 8.24 MB

Year: 2018

Language: english

SKU: EB-35870402 Category: Poetry - American Poetry Tag: Brenda Ayres

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ISBN 10: B07H7NFBJ2
ISBN 13: 9780429768668
Author: Brenda Ayres

This book, 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 with varying degrees of success and failure. The articles in this collection apply posthuman and other theories, including queer, postcolonialism, deconstruction, and Marxism, in their exploration of Victorian attitudes toward animals. They study the biopolitical relationships between human and nonhuman animals in several key Victorian literary works. Some of this book’s chapters deal with animal ethics and moral aesthetics. Also being studied is the representation of animals in several Victorian novels as narrative devices to signify class status and gender dynamics, either to iterate socially acceptable mores or to satirize hypocrisy or breach of behavior or to voice social protest. All of the chapters analyse the interdependence of people and animals during the nineteenth century.

Victorians and Their Animals 1st Edition Table of contents:

1. Gaskell’s Activism and Animal Agency

2. Old and New Beef: Caring for Animals in Household Words

3. George Eliot’s Use of Horses in Measuring the Moral Maturity of Characters in Her Novels

4. Pigs in Great Expectations: Class, Dehumanization, and Marxist Animal Studies

5. Ants, Insects, and Automatons: Classifying Creatures in Hardy’s The Return of the Native

6. It’s Raining Cats and Dogs in the Novels of George Eliot

7. A Fine Kettle of Fish: Cultural (and Culinary) Preservation in Anglo-Jewish Ghetto Stories

8. Gendered Metamorphoses in the Natural History Museum and Trans-Animality in Richard Marsh’s The Beetle

9. The “Animality” of Speech and Translation in The Jungle Books

List of Contributors

Index