The Political Lives of Victorian Animals - Couverture souple

Feuerstein, Anna

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1108730213 ISBN 13 : 9781108730211

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2021

Synopsis

During the Victorian era, animals were increasingly viewed not as property or utility, but as thinking, feeling subjects worthy of inclusion within a political community. This book re-examines the nineteenth-century British animal welfare movement and animal characters in the Victorian novel in light of liberal thought, and argues that liberalism was a decisive factor in determining the cultural, ideological, and material makeup of animal-human relationships. While the animal welfare movement often represented animals as desiring submission to the human, animal characters in the Victorian novel critiqued the liberal norms that led to the oppression of both animals and humans. Through readings of animal rights legislation, animal welfare texts, and writings by Charles Dickens, Lewis Carroll, Thomas Hardy, and Olive Schreiner, Anna Feuerstein outlines the remarkably powerful political role that animals played in the Victorian novel, as they offer ways to move beyond the exclusionary and contradictory strategies of liberal thought.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1108730213
• ISBN 13: 9781108730211
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 272
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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