Victorian animal dreams : representations of animals in Victorian literature and culture

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Title:

Author:

Morse, Deborah Denenholz, 1949-

ISBN:

9780754655114

Publication Information:

Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2007.

Physical Description:

xvi, 281 p., 24 p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.

Series:

Nineteenth century

Nineteenth century (Aldershot, England)

Contents:

pt. 1. Science and sentiment. Animal angst : Victorians memorialize their pets / Teresa Mangum -- Victorian beetlemania / Cannon Schmitt -- Killing elephants: pathos and prestige in the Nineteenth Century / Nigel Rothfels -- Designs after nature: evolutionary fashions, animals, and gender / Susan David Bernstein -- Dying like a dog in 'Great Expectations' / Ivan Kreilkamp -- pt. 2. Sex and violence. Nature red in hoof and paw : domestic animals and violence in Victorian art / Martin A. Danahay -- 'The crossing o' breeds' in 'The mill on the floss' / Mary Jean Corbett -- Horses and sexual/social dominance / Elsie B. Michie -- Pacific harvests: whales and albatrosses in Nineteenth-Century markets / Anca Vlasopolos -- pt. 3. Sin and Bestiality. 'The mark of the beast': animals as sites of imperial encounter from 'Wuthering Heights to Green Mansions' / Deborah Denenholz Morse -- Beastly criminals and criminal beasts : stray women and stray dogs in 'Oliver Twist' / Grace Moore -- The sins of sloths : the moral status of fossil megatheria in Victorian culture / Alan Rauch -- Tiger tales / Heather Schell -- The empire bites back: the racialized crocodile of the Nineteenth Century / Mary Elizabeth Leighton, Lisa Surridge.

Subject Term:

English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.

English literature -- English-speaking countries -- History and criticism.

Animals in literature.

Animal welfare -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.

Animal rights -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.

Human-animal relationships in literature.

Animals -- Symbolic aspects.

Added Author:

Morse, Deborah Denenholz, 1949-

Danahay, Martin A.

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Summary

The Victorian period witnessed the beginning of a debate on the status of animals that continues today. This volume explicitly acknowledges the way twenty-first-century deliberations about animal rights and the fact of past and prospective animal extinction haunt the discussion of the Victorians' obsession with animals. Combining close attention to historical detail with a sophisticated analytical framework, the contributors examine the various forms of human dominion over animals, including imaginative possession of animals in the realms of fiction, performance, and the visual arts, as well as physical control as manifest in hunting, killing, vivisection and zookeeping. The diverse range of topics, analyzed from a contemporary perspective, makes the volume a significant contribution to Victorian studies. The conclusion by Harriet Ritvo, the pre-eminent authority in the field of Victorian/animal studies, provides valuable insight into the burgeoning field of animal studies and points toward future studies of animals in the Victorian period.