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Pets and Domesticity in Victorian Literature and Culture - Animality, Queer Relations, and the Victorian Family (Paperback)
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Pets and Domesticity in Victorian Literature and Culture - Animality, Queer Relations, and the Victorian Family (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature
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Addressing the significance of the pet in the Victorian period,
this book examines the role played by the domestic pet in
delineating relations for each member of the "natural" family home.
Flegel explores the pet in relation to the couple at the head of
the house, to the children who make up the family's dependents, and
to the common familial "outcasts" who populate Victorian literature
and culture: the orphan, the spinster, the bachelor, and the
same-sex couple. Drawing upon both animal studies and queer theory,
this study stresses the importance of the domestic pet in
elucidating normative sexuality and (re)productivity within the
familial home, and reveals how the family pet operates as a means
of identifying aberrant, failed, or perverse familial and gender
performances. The family pet, that is, was an important signifier
in Victorian familial ideology of the individual family unit's
ability to support or threaten the health and morality of the
nation in the Victorian period. Texts by authors such as Clara
Balfour, Juliana Horatia Ewing, E. Burrows, Bessie Rayner Parkes,
Anne Bronte, George Eliot, Frederick Marryat, and Charles Dickens
speak to the centrality of the domestic pet to negotiations of
gender, power, and sexuality within the home that both reify and
challenge the imaginary structure known as the natural family in
the Victorian period. This book highlights the possibilities for a
familial elsewhere outside of normative and restrictive models of
heterosexuality, reproduction, and the natural family, and will be
of interest to those studying Victorian literature and culture,
animal studies, queer studies, and beyond.
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