Animals and their children in Victorian culture / edited by Brenda Ayres and Sarah E. Maier.
| Other author | Ayres, Brenda, 1953- |
| Other author | Maier, Sarah E. (Sarah Elizabeth), 1968- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York : Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2020. |
| Description | xiii, 264 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Taylor & Francis eBooks |
| Subjects |
| Series | Perspectives on the non-human in literature and culture Perspectives on the non-human in literature and culture. ^A1435209 |
| Contents | Introduction : little beasts on tight leashes / Brenda Ayres ; Sarah E. Maier -- Why did the cow jump over the moon? : animals (but mostly pussies) in nursery rhymes / Brenda Ayres -- Wanted dead or alive : rabbits in Victorian children's literature / Keridiana Chez -- "In friendly chat with bird or beast...mixing together things grave and gay" : desireful animals and humans in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass / Anna Koustinoudi -- A brotherhood of wolves : loyalty in Yiddish and Anglo-Jewish folktales / Lindsay Katzir ; Brandon Katzir -- Advocating for the least of these : empowering children and animals in The Band of Mercy Advocate / Alisa Clapp-Itnyre -- Bush animals, developmental time, and colonial identity in Victorian Australian children's fiction / Christie Harner -- The serpent ; or, The real king of the jungle / Stephen Basdeo -- Learning masculinity : education, boyhood, and the animal in Thomas Hughes's Tom Brown's School Days / Alicia Alves -- Unruly females on the farm : domestic animal mothers and the dismantling of the species hierarchy in nineteenth-century literature for children / Stacy Hoult-Saros -- The child is father of the man : lessons animals teach children in George Eliot's writings / Constance M. Fulmer -- Neither brutes nor beasts : animals, children, and young persons and/in the Bront©±s / Sarah E. Maier -- Children, animals, and the fantasies of the circus / Susan Nance -- Imperial pets : monkey-girls, man-cubs, and dog-faced boys on exhibition in Victorian Britain / Shannon Scott. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2019952888 |
| ISBN | 9780367416102 (hbk.) |
| ISBN | 0367416107 (hbk.) |
| ISBN | (ebk) |