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Animals in Victorian Literature and Culture : Contexts for Criticism /

This collection includes twelve provocative essays from a diverse group of international scholars, who utilize a range of interdisciplinary approaches to analyze real and representational animals that stand out as culturally significant to Victorian literature and culture. Essays focus on a wide ran...

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Corporate Authors: SpringerLink Online service
Group Author: Mazzeno, Laurence W; Morrison, Ronald D
Published: Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
Publisher Address: London :
Publication Dates: 2017.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Series: Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature
Subjects:
Literature
Great Britain > History
Civilization > History
Literature, Modern > 19th century
British literature
British and Irish Literature
Nineteenth-Century Literature
Cultural History
History of Britain and Ireland
Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-60219-0
Summary: This collection includes twelve provocative essays from a diverse group of international scholars, who utilize a range of interdisciplinary approaches to analyze real and representational animals that stand out as culturally significant to Victorian literature and culture. Essays focus on a wide range of canonical and non-canonical Victorian writers, including Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, Anna Sewell, Emily Bronte, James Thomson, Christina Rossetti, and Richard Marsh, and they focus on a diverse array of forms: fiction, poetry, journalism, and letters. These essays consider a wide rang
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (IX, 289 pages) : illustrations.
ISBN: 9781137602190
Index Number: PN849
CLC: I561.06
Contents: Introduction -- Part I: Animals in the Victorians World -- 1. Ann C. Colley, Collecting the Live and the Skinned -- 2. Ronald D. Morrison, Dickens, Household Words, and the Smithfield Controversy at the Time of the Great Exhibition -- 3. Grace Moore, Beasts, Birds, Fishes, and Reptiles : Anthony Trollope and the Australian Acclimatization Debate -- 4. Susan Hamilton, Dogs Homes and Lethal Chambers, or, What was it like to be a Battersea Dog? -- Part II: Animals in the Victorians Literature -- 5. Jennifer McDonell, Bull s-eye, Agency and the Species Divide in Oliver Twist: a Cur s-Eye View --

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