Animals and Their Children in Victorian Culture

by Brenda Ayres

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 103223959X
• ISBN13: 9781032239590
• Release Date: December 2021
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"