Anna Feuerstein

The Political Lives of Victorian Animals

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Anna Feuerstein offers innovative readings of the politics of animal characters in the Victorian novel, and shows the limitations of liberalism as a framework for animal rights. This book will appeal to scholars and students interested in Victorian literature and culture, and the representation of animals in literature.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. März 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 399g
• ISBN-13: 9781108730211
• ISBN-10: 1108730213
• Artikelnr.: 60798495

Autorenporträt

Anna Feuerstein is Assistant Professor at the University of Hawai'i-Manoa.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: the political lives of Victorian animals; Part I.
Anti-Cruelty Legislation and Animal Welfare: 1. The government of animals:
anti-cruelty legislation and the making of liberal creatures; 2. The
incessant care of the Victorian shepherd: animal welfare's pastoral power;
Part II. Democracy, Education, and Alternative Subjectivity: 3. 'Tame
submission to injustice is unworthy of a Raven': Charles Dickens's animal
character; 4. Alice in Wonderland's animal pedagogy: democracy and
alternative subjectivity in mid-Victorian liberal education; Part III. The
Biopolitics of Animal Capital: 5. Animal capital and the lives of sheep:
Thomas Hardy's biopolitical realism; 6. The political lives of animals in
Victorian Empire: Oliver Schreiner's anti-colonial animal politics.