The political lives of Victorian animals : liberal creatures in literature and culture / Anna Feuers...
The political lives of Victorian animals : liberal creatures in literature and culture / Anna Feuers...
The political lives of Victorian animals : liberal creatures in literature and culture / Anna Feuerstein, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa.
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Publisher
Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
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G 2020/2755
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Language
English
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Physical content
xi, 250 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
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volume
Contents
Anti-cruelty legislation and animal welfare -- Democracy, education, and alternative subjectivity -- The biopolitics of animal capital.
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Publisher
Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2019.
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Summary
During the Victorian era, animals were increasingly viewed not as property or utility, but as thinking, feeling subjects worthy of inclusion within a political community. This book re-examines the nineteenth-century British animal welfare movement and animal characters in the Victorian novel in light of liberal thought, and argues that liberalism w...
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The political lives of Victorian animals : liberal creatures in literature and culture / Anna Feuerstein, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa.
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Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-246) and index.
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Ebook version : 9781108632096
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G 2020/2755
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74VKadPRazQd
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKadPRazQd
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ISBN
9781108492966 (hardcover)
1108492967 (hardcover)
DDC
179.3094109034
MMS ID
991024317397602626
