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1 online resource (279 pages) |
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Perspectives on the Non-Human in Literature and Culture Ser |
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Perspectives on the non-human in literature and culture.
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And Colonial Identity in Victorian Australian Children's Fiction Christie Harner Chapter 7 The Serpent; or, the Real King of the Jungle Stephen Basdeo Chapter 8 Learning Masculinity: Education, Boyhood, and the Animal in Thomas Hughes' Tom Brown's School Days Alicia Alves Chapter 9 Unruly Females on the Farm: Farmed Animal Mothers and the Dismantling of the Species Hierarchy in 19th Century Literature for Children Stacy Hoult-Saros Chapter 10 The Child is Father of the Man: Lessons Animals Teach Children in George Eliot's Writings Constance Fulmer Chapter 11 Neither Brutes nor Beasts: Animals, Children and Young Persons and/in the Brontës Sarah E |
| Summary |
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 |
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børne- og ungdomslitteratur |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Dr. Brenda Ayres, once Full Professor on the graduate faculty of English, is now teaching online as Adjunct Professor for Liberty University and Southern New Hampshire University. Dr. Sarah E. Maier is Full Professor of English and Comparative Literature, as well as Director of Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies, at the University of New Brunswick |
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Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force. WlAbNL |
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Print version record |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed January 17, 2020) |
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Animals in literature -- History and criticism -- 19th century
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Children's literature -- History and criticism -- 19th century
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Children's Literature.
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Animals in literature
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Children's literature
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Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Ayres, Brenda, 1953-
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Maier, Sarah E. (Sarah Elizabeth), 1968-
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| ISBN |
1000759504 |
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9781003004035 |
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1003004032 |
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9781000759815 |
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1000759814 |
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9781000760125 |
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100076012X |
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9781000759501 |
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