Monica Flegel

Pets and Domesticity in Victorian Literature and Culture (eBook, ePUB)

Animality, Queer Relations, and the Victorian Family

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines how the domestic pet delineates relations for members of the "natural" family home in Victorian literature, exploring the pet in relation to heads of the house, children, and common "outcasts:" orphan, spinster, bachelor, and same-sex couple. Drawing on animal studies and queer theory, it shows how the pet elucidates normative sexuality and (re)productivity within the home, and operates to identify aberrant, failed, or perverse familial and gender performances. This book highlights a familial elsewhere outside of normative models of heterosexuality, reproduction, and the natural family, contributing to Victorian literature and culture, animal studies, and queer studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317564850
• Artikelnr.: 42505294

Autorenporträt

Monica Flegel is Associate Professor of English at Lakehead University, Canada

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Animals in the Family: Pet Relations in Victorian Literature and Culture 1. Love Me
Love my Dog: The Role of the Pet in Rituals of Courtship
Domesticity
and Parenthood 2. Becoming Crazy Cat Lady: Women and their Pets in the Domestic Circle 3. Pets and Patriarchy: Bachelors
Villains
and their Animal Companions 4. Household Pets
Waifs and Strays: Children and Animals Inside and Outside the Victorian Home Conclusion: Animals and their Families