Empire and the Animal Body

Violence, Identity and Ecology in Victorian Adventure Fiction

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John Miller

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Hardback

Series:

Anthem Nineteenth-century Series

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'Empire and the Animal Body: Violence, Identity and Ecology in Victorian Adventure Fiction' develops recent work in animal studies, eco-criticism and postcolonial studies to reassess the significance of exotic animals in Victorian adventure literature. Depictions of violence against animals were integral to the ideology of adventure literature in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. However, the evolutionary hierarchies on which such texts relied were complicated by developing environmental sensitivities and reimaginings of human selfhood in relation to animal others. As these texts hankered after increasingly imperilled areas of wilderness, the border between human and animal appeared tense, ambivalent and problematic.

Author Biography:

John Miller is currently a lecturer in nineteenth-century literature at the University of Sheffield. He has published widely on animal studies and ecocriticism, particularly in relation to British Empire writing and postcolonial studies.

Release date Australia

October 15th, 2012

Author

John Miller

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

10+ bw images

Pages

244

Series

Anthem Nineteenth-century Series

Dimensions

153x229x26

ISBN-13

9780857285348

Product ID

19851552

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