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Victorian Fiction and the Cult of the Horse (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Victorian Fiction and the Cult of the Horse (Hardcover, New Ed)
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The horse was essential to the workings of Victorian society, and
its representations, which are vast, ranging, and often
contradictory, comprise a vibrant cult of the horse. Examining the
representational, emblematic, and rhetorical uses of horses in a
diversity of nineteenth-century texts, Gina M. Dorre shows how
discourses about horses reveal and negotiate anxieties related to
industrialism and technology, constructions of gender and
sexuality, ruptures in the social fabric caused by class conflict
and mobility, and changes occasioned by national "progress" and
imperial expansion. She argues that as a cultural object, the horse
functions as a repository of desire and despair in a society rocked
by astonishing social, economic, and technological shifts. While
representations of horses abound in Victorian fiction, Gina M.
Dorre's study focuses on those novels by Charles Dickens, Elizabeth
Braddon, Anna Sewell, and George Moore that engage with the most
impassioned controversies concerning horses and horse-care, such as
the introduction of the steam engine, popular new methods of
horse-taming, debates over the tight-reining of horses, and the
moral furor surrounding gambling at the race track. Her book
establishes the centrality of the horse as a Victorian cultural
icon and explores how through it, dominant ideologies of gender and
class are created, promoted, and disrupted.
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