Victorians and Their Animals: Beast on a Leash investigates the
notion that British Victorians did see themselves as a naturally
dominant species over other humans and over animals. They were
conscientiously, hegemonically determined to rule those beneath
them and the animal within themselves, albeit with varying degrees
of success and failure. The articles in this collection apply
posthumanism and other theories, including queer, postcolonialist,
deconstructionist, and Marxist approaches in their exploration of
Victorian attitudes toward animals. They study the biopolitical
relationships between human and nonhuman animals in several key
Victorian literary works. Some of this book's chapters deal with
animal ethics and moral aesthetics. Also being studied is the
representation of animals in several Victorian novels as narrative
devices to signify class status and gender dynamics, either to
iterate socially acceptable mores, to satirize hypocrisy or breach
of behavior or to voice social protest. All of the chapters analyze
the interdependence of people and animals during the nineteenth
century.
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