Minor Creatures: Persons, Animals, and the Victorian Novel

by Ivan Kreilkamp

Book Overview

In the nineteenth century, richly-drawn social fiction became one of England's major cultural exports. At the same time, a surprising companion came to stand alongside the novel as a key embodiment of British identity: the domesticated pet. In works by authors from the Brontës to Eliot, from Dickens to Hardy, animals appeared as markers of domestic coziness and familial kindness. Yet for all their supposed significance, the animals in nineteenth-century...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022657637X
• ISBN13: 9780226576374
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 14.5" x 8.7"