Victorians and Their Animals: Beast on a Leash

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of Figures
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction: Beast on a Leash
	Notes
	Bibliography
1.
Gaskell’s Activism and Animal Agency
	Animal Agency
	Gaskell and Darwin
	A Stinging Order of Insects
	Buzzing Agents
	More Buzzing Agents
	Under the Roundtop
	Domestic Animals
	More Animal Agents
	Notes
	Bibliography
2.
Old and New Beef: Caring for Animals in Household Words
	Look at This Ox: The Politics of Disgust
	Food and Animals in Household Words
	Contractual Companions
	Notes
	Bibliography
3.
George Eliot’s Use of Horses in Measuring the Moral Maturity of Characters in Her Novels
	Notes
	Bibliography
4.
Pigs in Great Expectations: Class, Dehumanization, and Marxist Animal Studies
	Pig Politics
	Pig Philosophy
	Pig Pip
	Note
	Bibliography
5.
Ants, Insects, and Automatons: Classifying Creatures in Hardy’s The Return of the Native
	Darwin’s Ants: Cultural Creatures?
	Insects at Home and on the Heath: Happy as a Mayfly?
	Souls in Shoals: Are (Human and Nonhuman) Animals Conscious Automata?
	Notes
	Bibliography
6.
It’s Raining Cats and Dogs in the Novels of George Eliot
	Notes
	Bibliography
7.
A Fine Kettle of Fish: Cultural (and Culinary) Preservation in Anglo-Jewish Ghetto Stories
	History of Jewish Fish
	Anglicization in the East End
	Idealism in Farjeon and Zangwill
	Continuity of Jewish Families and Jewish Life
	Conclusion
	Bibliography
8.
Gendered Metamorphoses in the Natural History Museum and Trans-Animality in Richard Marsh’s The Beetle
	Metamorphic Otherness
	The Women–Insects Nexus
	Inversions and Ambiguities
	Trans-Animality and
	Conclusion
	Notes
	Bibliography
9.
The “Animality” of Speech and Translation in The Jungle Books
	“Jungle Call and Response”
	The “Animality” of Speech
	“Postcolonial” Speech
	Notes
	Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index