Humans, Animals, and U.s. Society in the Long Nineteenth Century: a Documentary History: A Documentary History - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0367470039 ISBN 13 : 9780367470036

Editeur : Routledge, 2025

Synopsis

This volume focuses on the relations between humans and domesticated animals in British and American society and illuminates how these relations were shaped by key phenomena and developments of the long nineteenth century. The areas covered include the ways in which domesticated creatures participated in various contexts of work life and the "invention" of the pet as a distinct category of animal that significantly reshaped family life and idea(l)s of domesticity against the background of a developing middle class culture. Both pets and other domesticated animals also played a significant, if sometimes ambivalent, role in the lives of enslaved Black people (as reflected in various slave narratives) and the genre of abolitionist literature, an often neglected area that warrants a section of its own. The sources in the final section documents the intensification of national and international debates about animal cruelty.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Dominik Ohrem is Research Associate at MESH - Multidisciplinary Environmental Studies in the Humanities and Postdoctoral Researcher at HESCOR (Cultural Evolution in Changing Climate: Human and Earth System Coupled Research) at the University of Cologne, Germany. His research is focused on the history and philosophy of human-animal and multispecies relations.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0367470039
• ISBN 13: 9780367470036
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 492
• Éditeur: Ohrem Dominik
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Routledge; https://www.routledge-ny.com/; ; Stockst?dter Str. 20; Gro?ostheim; Bayern; Allemagne