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

The Victorian period witnessed the beginning of a debate on the status of animals that continues today. This volume explicitly acknowledges the way 21st-century deliberations about animal rights and the fact of past and prospective animal extinction haunt the discussion of the Victorians' obsession with animals
Print Book, English, ©2007
Ashgate, Aldershot, England, ©2007
Aufsatzsammlung
xvi, 281 pages, 24 pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780754655114, 0754655113
82772658
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