Reckoning with the Beast: Animals, Pain, and Humanity in the Victorian Mind

by James C. Turner

Book Overview

Historian James Turner focuses on the great rise of Victorian concern for the humane treatment of animals, one of the most noteworthy flowering of such sentiment in modern times and one that engaged the support of the rich and the powerful, of church dignitaries, peers and ministers, and the queen herself. In delving into the history of animal rights, he also offers a fresh perspective on such varied aspects of Victorian culture as attitudes toward...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801823994
• ISBN13: 9780801823992
• Release Date: October 1980
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher