Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/31187
Title: Representing animals in the literature of Victorian Britain
Contributor(s): McDonell, Jennifer  (author)orcid 
Publication Date: 2018
Early Online Version: 2018-09-03
DOI: 10.4324/9780429468933-10
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/31187
Abstract: This chapter provides an overview of significant developments and preoccupations in Animal Studies in so far as these have influenced research in Victorian literature, and suggests some possible future directions the field may take. It shows that understanding Victorian perceptions of animals is inseparable from understanding human self-conception in the same period, and that the impact of animals on Victorian Britain's imagination and artistic practices has significant implications for an understanding of its social and cultural life, and vice versa. The chapter deals with two iconic images of the Victorian era. The first is a photograph of Queen Victoria with one of her favourite border collies, Sharp, who is seated on a gothic chair resembling a throne and leaning into his dour mistress's breast. The second is of the celebrity elephant Jumbo, who tragically died after being hit by a freight locomotive, a death that is all too neatly emblematic of nineteenth-century industrialisation.
Publication Type: Book Chapter
Source of Publication: The Routledge Companion to Animal–Human History, p. 222-250
Publisher: Routledge
Place of Publication: London, United Kingdom
ISBN: 9780429468933
9781138193260
9780367733650
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: 200503 British and Irish Literature
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: 470504 British and Irish literature
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: 950504 Understanding Europe's Past
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: 130704 Understanding Europe’s past
HERDC Category Description: B1 Chapter in a Scholarly Book
Editor: Editor(s): Hilda Kean and Philip Howell
Appears in Collections:Book Chapter
School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

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