‘Empire and the Animal Body: Violence, Identity and Ecology in
Victorian Adventure Fiction’ develops recent work in animal studies,
eco-criticism and postcolonial studies to reassess the significance of
exotic animals in Victorian adventure literature. Depictions of
violence against animals were integral to the ideology of adventure
literature in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
However, the evolutionary hierarchies on which such texts relied were
complicated by developing environmental sensitivities and reimaginings
of human selfhood in relation to animal others. As these texts
hankered after increasingly imperilled areas of wilderness, the border
between human and animal appeared tense, ambivalent and problematic.
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ISBN
9780857285492
Publisert
2016
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Anthem Press (NBN)
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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