Victorian Animal Dreams: Representations of Animals in Victorian Literature and Culture

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ISBN: 9780754655114 | 0754655113
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 9/28/2007

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The Victorian period witnessed the beginning of a debate on the status of animals that continues today. What distinguishes this volume is the explicit acknowledgement of the way twenty-first-century deliberations about animal rights and the fact of past a

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General editor's preface
Introduction
Science and Sentiment
Animal angst
Victorians memorialize their pets
Victorian beetlemania
Killing elephants: pathos and prestige in the 19th century
Designs after nature: evolutionary fashions, animals and gender
Dying like a dog in Great Expectations
Sex and Violence
Nature red in hoof and paw: domestic animals and violence in Victorian culture
'The crossing o' breeds' in The Mill on the Floss
Horses and social/sexual dominance
Pacific harvests: whales and albatrosses in 19th-century markets
Sin and Bestiality
'The mark of the beast': animals as sites of imperial encounter from Wuthering Heights to Green Mansions
Beastly criminals and criminal beasts: stray women and stray dogs in Oliver Twist
The sin of sloths: the moral status of fossil megatheria in Victorian culture
Tiger tales
The empire bites back: the racialized crocodile of the 19th century
Afterword
Index
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Victorian Animal Dreams: Representations of Animals in Victorian Literature and Culture

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