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The Political Lives of Victorian Animals

The Political Lives of Victorian Animals Liberal Creatures in Literature and Culture - Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture

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Publisher's 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.

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Book information

ISBN: 9781108492966
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 179.3094109034
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 270
Weight: 57g
Height: 227mm
Width: 163mm
Spine width: 18mm