John Miller

Empire and the Animal Body (eBook, PDF)

Violence, Identity and Ecology in Victorian Adventure Fiction

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Produktbeschreibung

'Empire and the Animal Body: Violence, Identity and Ecology in Victorian Adventure Fiction' develops recent work in animal studies, eco-criticism and postcolonial studies to reassess the significance of exotic animals in Victorian adventure literature. Depictions of violence against animals were integral to the ideology of adventure literature in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. However, the evolutionary hierarchies on which such texts relied were complicated by developing environmental sensitivities and reimaginings of human selfhood in relation to animal others. As these texts hankered after increasingly imperilled areas of wilderness, the border between human and animal appeared tense, ambivalent and problematic.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857285492
• Artikelnr.: 44360925

Autorenporträt

John Miller is currently a lecturer in nineteenth-century literature at the University of Sheffield. He has published widely on animal studies and ecocriticism, particularly in relation to British Empire writing and postcolonial studies.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Otherness and Order
Chapter 2: Scientists and Specimens
Chapter 3: The Animal Within
Chapter 4: Wild Men and Wilderness
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index