The Political Lives Of Victorian Animals

Download or read book The Political Lives of Victorian Animals written by Anna Feuerstein and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-04 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines how liberal thought influenced representations of animals within nineteenth-century animal welfare discourse and the Victorian novel.

Download or read book City of Beasts written by Thomas Almeroth-Williams and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Minor Creatures written by Ivan Kreilkamp and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-11-07 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Animals written by Derek Ryan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-08-31 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Music and Victorian Liberalism written by Sarah Collins and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-06 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the interaction between music and liberal discourses in Victorian Britain, revealing the close interdependence of political and aesthetic practices.

Download or read book Victorian Writers and the Environment written by Laurence W. Mazzeno and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-08 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Biopolitics and Animal Species in Nineteenth Century Literature and Science written by Matthew Rowlinson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-02 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Centring on Darwin and on literature throughout the nineteenth century, this book documents a general crisis in the species concept.