Empire and the Animal Body

Violence, Identity and Ecology in Victorian Adventure Fiction

AvJohn Miller

Inbunden, Engelska, 2012

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‘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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Utgivningsdatum:2012-10-15
Mått:153 x 229 x 26 mm
Vikt:590 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Anthem Nineteenth-Century Series
Antal sidor:244
Förlag:Anthem Press
ISBN:9780857285348

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John Miller is currently a lecturer in nineteenth-century literature at the University of Sheffield. He has published widely on animal studies and ecocriticism, particularly in relation to British Empire writing and postcolonial studies.

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‘[Miller] discusses the experience of the hunt as domination of the Other, big game as and economic resource, and the attempts to regulate the disappearance of endangered species, which often resulted in increased control over colonial subjects.’ —Adela Pinch, ‘Studies in English Literature’

Innehållsförteckning

List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1: Otherness and Order; Chapter 2: Scientists and Specimens; Chapter 3: The Animal Within; Chapter 4: Wild Men and Wilderness; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index