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Talking Animals in British Children's Fiction, 1786-1914 (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Talking Animals in British Children's Fiction, 1786-1914 (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: The Nineteenth Century Series
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In her reappraisal of canonical works such as Black Beauty,
Beautiful Joe, Wind in the Willows, and Peter Rabbit, Tess Cosslett
traces how nineteenth-century debates about the human and animal
intersected with, or left their mark on, the venerable genre of the
animal story written for children. Effortlessly applying a range of
critical approaches, from Bakhtinian ideas of the carnivalesque to
feminist, postcolonial, and ecocritical theory, she raises
important questions about the construction of the child reader, the
qualifications of the implied author, and the possibilities of
children's literature compared with literature written for adults.
Perhaps most crucially, Cosslett examines how the issues of animal
speech and animal subjectivity were managed, at a time when the
possession of language and consciousness had become a vital sign of
the difference between humans and animals. Topics of great
contemporary concern, such as the relation of the human and the
natural, masculine and feminine, child and adult, are investigated
within their nineteenth-century contexts, making this an important
book for nineteenth-century scholars, children's literature
specialists, and historians of science and childhood.
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