[PDF.81kg] The Animal Estate: The English and Other Creatures in the Victorian Age

The Animal Estate: The English and Other Creatures in the Victorian Age

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 | #1054319 in Books |  Harvard University Press |  1989-01-01 |  1989-01-31 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.25 x.90 x6.13l,1.23 | File type: PDF | 368 pages

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||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Before we had Millenials to pick on, there were the Victorians.....|By POL|Before we had Millennials to pick on, there were the Victorians. Whether it be the proliferation of pornography or the hysteria surrounding diseases and their control, the Victorians have always availed themselves as a congenial target for social historians. This book takes a fun Foucauldian swipe at t| |The brilliance of Ritvo's book, my favorite for 1987...[lies] in the particular examples that she has chosen to illustrate the institutional bonds of humans with other animals...She tells so many wonderful stories. (Stephen Jay Gould New York of Books

Harriet Ritvo provides a picture of how animals figured in English thinking during the 19th century and, by extension, how they served as metaphors for human psychological needs and sociopolitical aspirations. Victorian England has been seen as a period of burgeoning scientific cattle breeding and newly fashionable dog shows; the age of Empire and big game hunting; and an era of reform and reformers that saw the birth of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to...

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