Insect Politics in Richard Marsh's "The Beetle" / Collecting the Live and the Skinned / Elizabeth Effinger. Dickens, "Household Words," and the Smithfield Controversy at the Time of the Great Exhibition / Ronald D. Morrison. Beasts, Birds, Fishes, and Reptiles: Anthony Trollope and the Australian Acclimatization Debate / Moore, Grace. Dogs' Homes and Lethal Chambers, or, What Was it Like to be a Battersea Dog? / Susan Hamilton -- Animals in the Victorians' literature: Bull's-eye, Agency, and the Species Divide in "Oliver Twist": a Cur's-Eye View / Jennifer McDonell. Performing Animals/Performing Humanity / Antonia Losano. "I Declare I Never Saw so Lovely an Animal!": Beauty, Individuality, and Objectification in Nineteenth-Century Animal Autobiographies / Monica Flegel. Cathy's Whip and Heathcliff's Snarl: Control, Violence, Care, and Rights in "Wuthering Heights" / Susan Mary Pyke. Creatures on the "Night-Side of Nature": James Thomson's Melancholy Ethics / John Miller. "Come Buy, Come Buy!": Christina Rossetti and the Victorian Animal Market / Jed Mayer. "Black Beauty": The Emotional Work of Pretend Play / Kathryn Yeniyurt. Insect Politics in Richard Marsh's "The Beetle" / Elizabeth Effinger.
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 range of cultural attitudes and literary treatments of animals in the Victorian Age, including the development of the animal protection movement, the importation of animals from the expanding Empire, the acclimatization of British animals in other countries, and the problems associated with increasing pet ownership. The collection also includes an Introduction co-written by the editors and Suggestions for Further Study, and will prove of interest to scholars and students across the multiple disciplines which comprise Animal Studies.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.