Animals and Their Children in Victorian Culture [electronic resource].
- New York : Routledge, 2019.
- 1 online resource (279 p.).
- Perspectives on the Non-Human in Literature and Culture Ser. .
Description based upon print version of record.
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.
9781000759501 1000759504 9781003004035 1003004032 9781000759815 1000759814 9781000760125 100076012X
Animals in literature--History and criticism--19th century.
Children's literature--History and criticism--19th century.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Children's Literature
PN56.A64
809.93362
Description based upon print version of record.
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.
9781000759501 1000759504 9781003004035 1003004032 9781000759815 1000759814 9781000760125 100076012X
Animals in literature--History and criticism--19th century.
Children's literature--History and criticism--19th century.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Children's Literature
PN56.A64
809.93362