Animals and Their Children in Victorian Culture

Brenda Ayres (Curatore)

Sarah Elizabeth Maier (Curatore)

Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2021

Whether a secularized morality, biblical worldview, or unstated set of mores, the Victorian period can and always will be distinguished from those before and after for its pervasive sense of the "proper way" of thinking, speaking, doing, and acting. Animals in literature taught Victorian children how to be behave. If you are a postmodern posthumanist, you might argue, "But the animals in literature did not write their own accounts." Animal characters may be the creations of writers’ imagination, but animals did and do exist in their own right, as did and do humans. The original essays in Animals and Their Children in Victorian explore the representation of animals in children’s literature by resisting an anthropomorphized perception of them. Instead of focusing on the domestication of animals, this book analyzes how animals in literature "civilize" children, teaching them how to get along with fellow creatures—both human and nonhuman.

• Curatore: Brenda Ayres, Sarah Elizabeth Maier
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Collana: Perspectives on the Non-Human in Literature and Culture
• Anno: 2021
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 278 p.
• Dimensioni: 229 x 152 mm
• Peso: 381 gr.
• EAN: 9781032239590

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