Talking Animals in British Children's Fiction, 1786û1914

Nineteenth-century scholars, children's literature specialists, and historians of science and childhood will engage with Tess Cosslett's examination of nineteenth-century debates about the human and animal in children's stories such as Black Beauty, Beautiful Joe, Wind in the Willows, and Peter Rabbit. Investigating these works within their nineteenth-century contexts, Cosslett takes on topics that still resonate, such as the relation of the human and the natural, masculine and feminine, and child and adult.

Tess Cosslett is Reader in Victorian Studies and Women's Writing at Lancaster University, UK.