Book contents
- The Political Lives of Victorian Animals
- Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
- The Political Lives of Victorian Animals
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Anti-Cruelty Legislation and Animal Welfare
- Part II Democracy, Education, and Alternative Subjectivity
- Part III The Biopolitics of Animal Capital
- Coda
- Works Cited
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
Introduction
The Political Lives of Victorian Animals
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 June 2019
Book contents
- The Political Lives of Victorian Animals
- Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
- The Political Lives of Victorian Animals
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Anti-Cruelty Legislation and Animal Welfare
- Part II Democracy, Education, and Alternative Subjectivity
- Part III The Biopolitics of Animal Capital
- Coda
- Works Cited
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
Summary
The Introduction lays out the book’s argument, intervention, theoretical framework, and relationship with previous scholarship. It gives an overview of previous work on Victorian animals and Victorian liberalism, and explains how the book engages with both conversations. It also shows how the argument is indebted to theoretical work in animal studies and posthumanism.
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- The Political Lives of Victorian AnimalsLiberal Creatures in Literature and Culture, pp. 1 - 28Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019