Animals and Their Children in Victorian Culture (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Ayres, Brenda; Maier, Sarah Elizabeth

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. November 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000760125
• Artikelnr.: 58278964

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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 19^th 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