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Victorians and Their Animals: Beast on a Leash investigates the notion that British Victorians did see themselves as a naturally dominant species over other humans and over animals. They were conscientiously, hegemonically determined to rule those beneath them and the animal within themselves, albeit with varying degrees of success and failure. The articles in this collection apply posthumanism and other theories, including queer, postcolonialist, deconstructionist, and Marxist approaches in their exploration of Victorian attitudes toward animals. They study the biopolitical relationships between human and nonhuman animals in several key Victorian literary works. Some of this book's chapters deal with animal ethics and moral aesthetics. Also being studied is the representation of animals in several Victorian novels as narrative devices to signify class status and gender dynamics, either to iterate socially acceptable mores, to satirize hypocrisy or breach of behavior or to voice social protest. All of the chapters analyze the interdependence of people and animals during the nineteenth century.
Contents
List of Figures
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction: Beast on a Leash
BRENDA AYRES
1 Gaskell's Activism and Animal Agency
BRENDA AYRES
2 Old and New Beef: Caring for Animals in Household Words
LIAM YOUNG
3 George Eliot's Use of Horses in Measuring the Moral Maturity of Characters in Her Novels
CONSTANCE M. FULMER
4 Pigs in Great Expectations: Class, Dehumanization, and Marxist Animal Studies
JESSICA KUSKEY
5 Ants, Insects, and Automatons: Classifying Creatures in Hardy's The Return of the Native
ANNA WEST
6 It's Raining Cats and Dogs in the Novels of George Eliot
BRENDA AYRES
7 A Fine Kettle of Fish: Cultural (and Culinary) Preservation in Anglo-Jewish Ghetto Stories
LINDSAY KATZIR
8 Gendered Metamorphoses in the Natural History Museum and Trans-Animality in Richard Marsh's The Beetle
PANDORA SYPEREK
9 The "Animality" of Speech and Translation in The Jungle Books
CHRISTIE HARNER
Notes on Contributors
Index
