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Author:

Dorré, Gina M., 1963-

Title:

Victorian fiction and the cult of the horse / Gina M. Dorré.

Publisher:

Ashgate,

Copyright Date:

c2006

Description:

179 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Dickens, Charles,--1812-1870--Criticism and interpretation.
Braddon, M. E.--(Mary Elizabeth),--1835-1915--Criticism and interpretation.
Sewell, Anna,--1820-1878--Criticism and interpretation.
Moore, George,--1852-1933--Criticism and interpretation.
English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
Horses in literature.
Literature and society--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-174) and index.

Contents:

All the queen's horses : Victorian culture and the "definition of a horse" -- Handling the "iron horse" : Dickens, travel, and the derailing of Victorian masculinity -- Horsebreaking and homemaking : horsey heroines and destabilized domesticity in the sensation fiction of Mary Elizabeth Braddon -- Horses and corsets : Black Beauty, dress reform, and the fashioning of the Victorian woman -- Reading and riding : late-century aesthetics and the cultural economy of the turf in George Moore's Esther Waters -- Urban ironies and the modern mind : horses after Victoria.

ISBN:

9780754655152 (alk. paper)
0754655156 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)69423216

LCCN:

2006016616

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)