Historian James Turner focuses on the great rise of Victorian
concern for the humane treatment of animals, one of the most
noteworthy flowering of such sentiment in modern times and one that
engaged the support of the rich and the powerful, of church
dignitaries, peers and ministers, and the queen herself. In delving
into the history of animal rights, he also offers a fresh
perspective on such varied aspects of Victorian culture as
attitudes toward sex, pain, child labor, women, poverty, and
science.
Turner draws on extensive researh in the archives of a animal
protection societies, literature of the period, and controversial
writings on the treatment of animals. He argues that the dual
shocks of industrialization and urbanization helped produce a
deeper emotional identification with the natural world. Scientists
of the day, proclaiming that human beings were close kin to beasts,
not only encouraged but demanded considerate treatment for animals,
a sentiment that reached its liveliest expression in the
antivivisection controversy. By the turn of the century, the author
demonstrates, new conceptions of human nature adn heightened
sensitivity even to the plight of lower life-forms were
contributing to a new understanding of man's place in nature.
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