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Animals in Victorian Literature and Culture
Laurence W. . Ed(S): Mazzeno
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Description for Animals in Victorian Literature and Culture
Hardback. Editor(s): Mazzeno, Laurence W. Series: Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature. Num Pages: 289 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, 8 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; DNF; DSBF; HBTB; JFFZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 519.
This collection includes twelve provocative essays from a diverse group of international scholars, who utilize a range of interdisciplinary approaches to analyze “real” and “representational” animals that stand out as culturally significant to Victorian literature and culture. Essays focus on a wide range of canonical and non-canonical Victorian writers, including Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, Anna Sewell, Emily Bronte, James Thomson, Christina Rossetti, and Richard Marsh, and they focus on a diverse array of forms: fiction, poetry, journalism, and letters. These essays consider a wide range of cultural attitudes and literary treatments of animals in the Victorian Age, including the development ... Read more
This collection includes twelve provocative essays from a diverse group of international scholars, who utilize a range of interdisciplinary approaches to analyze “real” and “representational” animals that stand out as culturally significant to Victorian literature and culture. Essays focus on a wide range of canonical and non-canonical Victorian writers, including Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, Anna Sewell, Emily Bronte, James Thomson, Christina Rossetti, and Richard Marsh, and they focus on a diverse array of forms: fiction, poetry, journalism, and letters. These essays consider a wide range of cultural attitudes and literary treatments of animals in the Victorian Age, including the development ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
289
Condition
New
Series
Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature
Number of Pages
289
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137602183
SKU
V9781137602183
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About Laurence W. . Ed(S): Mazzeno
Laurence W. Mazzeno is President Emeritus of Alvernia University, USA. He is the author of critical reception studies on a number of British and American authors, editor of several essay collections, reviews editor for Nineteenth-Century Prose and academic editor for two editions of the fourteen-volume Masterplots series. Ronald D. Morrison is Professor of English at Morehead State University, USA. He ... Read more
Reviews for Animals in Victorian Literature and Culture
“Animals in Victorian Literature and Culture: Contexts for Criticism … contribute to the entangled history of human-animal relations in nineteenth- century Britain and illuminate the role of culture in its entanglements. … the literary representation of animals makes visible the fictionality of our relation to animals: animals are real, to be sure, but that seems incidental to the ways in ... Read more