Animal Advocacy and Englishwomen, 1780-1900: Patriots, Nation, and Empire

by Moira Ferguson

Animal Advocacy and Englishwomen, 1780-1900 focuses on women writers and their struggle to protect animals from abuse in the transition from preindustrial to Victorian society. Looking critically at the work of Sarah Trimmer, Susanna Watts, Elizabeth Heyrick, Anna Sewell, and Frances Power Cobb, Moira Ferguson explores the links between Britain's evolving self-definition and the debate over the humane treatment of animals. Ferguson contends that animal-advocacy...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472108743
• ISBN13: 9780472108749
• Release Date: March 1998
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.4"