Animals and Their Children in Victorian Culture -

Animals and Their Children in Victorian Culture

Buch | Softcover
278 Seiten
2021
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-23959-0 (ISBN)
49,85 inkl. MwSt
Animals and Their Children in Victorian Culture is a collection of original essays that explore the representation of animals in children’s literature. It focuses on the influence of animals to "civilize" children (and not the animals) in moral ethics and proper Victorian behavior, especially regarding human treatment of animals.
Whether a secularized morality, biblical worldview, or unstated set of mores, the Victorian period can and always will be distinguished from those before and after for its pervasive sense of the "proper way" of thinking, speaking, doing, and acting. Animals in literature taught Victorian children how to be behave. If you are a postmodern posthumanist, you might argue, "But the animals in literature did not write their own accounts." Animal characters may be the creations of writers’ imagination, but animals did and do exist in their own right, as did and do humans. The original essays in Animals and Their Children in Victorian explore the representation of animals in children’s literature by resisting an anthropomorphized perception of them. Instead of focusing on the domestication of animals, this book analyzes how animals in literature "civilize" children, teaching them how to get along with fellow creatures—both human and nonhuman.

Dr. Brenda Ayres, once Full Professor on the graduate faculty of English, is now teaching online as Adjunct Professor for Liberty University and Southern New Hampshire University. Dr. Sarah E. Maier is Full Professor of English and Comparative Literature, as well as Director of Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies, at the University of New Brunswick.

Introduction: Little Beasts on Tight Leashes

Brenda Ayres and Sarah E. Maier

Chapter 1

Why Did the Cow Jump over the Moon? Animals (but Mostly Pussies) in Nursery Rhymes

Brenda Ayres

Chapter 2

Wanted Dead or Alive: Rabbits in Victorian Children’s Literature

Keridiana Chez

Chapter 3

"In friendly chat with bird or beast … mixing together things grave and gay": Desireful Animals and Humans in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass

Anna Koustinoudi

Chapter 4

A Brotherhood of Wolves: Loyalty in Yiddish and Anglo-Jewish Folktales

Lindsay Katzir and Brandon Katzir

Chapter 5

Advocating for the Least of These: Empowering Children and Animals in The Band of Mercy Advocate

Alisa Clapp-Itnyre

Chapter 6

Bush Animals, Developmental Time, and Colonial Identity in Victorian Australian Children’s Fiction

Christie Harner

Chapter 7

The Serpent; or, the Real King of the Jungle

Stephen Basdeo

Chapter 8

Learning Masculinity: Education, Boyhood, and the Animal in Thomas Hughes’ Tom Brown’s School Days

Alicia Alves

Chapter 9

Unruly Females on the Farm: Farmed Animal Mothers and the Dismantling of the Species Hierarchy in 19th Century Literature for Children

Stacy Hoult-Saros

Chapter 10

The Child is Father of the Man: Lessons Animals Teach Children in George Eliot’s Writings

Constance Fulmer

Chapter 11

Neither Brutes nor Beasts: Animals, Children and Young Persons and/in the Brontës

Sarah E. Maier

Chapter 12

Animals, Children, and the Fantasies of the Circus

Susan Nance

Chapter 13

Imperial Pets: Monkey-Girls, Man-Cubs, and Dog-Faced Boys on Exhibition in Victorian Britain

Shannon Scott

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Perspectives on the Non-Human in Literature and Culture
Zusatzinfo 5 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 381 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
Naturwissenschaften Biologie Zoologie
Weitere Fachgebiete Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
ISBN-10 1-032-23959-X / 103223959X
ISBN-13 978-1-032-23959-0 / 9781032239590
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