| Empire and the Animal Body: Violence, Identity and Ecology in Victorian Adventure Fiction Contributor(s): Miller, John (Author) |
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ISBN: 1783083174 ISBN-13: 9781783083176 Publisher: Anthem Press OUR PRICE: $38.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - History | Modern - 19th Century |
| Dewey: 823.809 |
| Series: Anthem Nineteenth-Century |
| Physical Information: 0.56" H x 6" W x 9" (0.81 lbs) 244 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Chronological Period - 19th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: '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. |