Animals in Victorian Literature and Culture

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Collecting the Live and the Skinned

Chapter 3 Dickens, Household Words , and the Smithfield Controversy at the Time of the Great Exhibition

Chapter 4 Beasts, Birds, Fishes, and Reptiles: Anthony Trollope and the Australian Acclimatization Debate

Chapter 5 Dogs’ Homes and Lethal Chambers, or, What Was it Like to be a Battersea Dog?

Chapter 6 Bull’s-eye, Agency, and the Species Divide in Oliver Twist : a Cur’s-Eye View

Chapter 7 Performing Animals/Performing Humanity

Chapter 8 “I Declare I Never Saw so Lovely an Animal!”: Beauty, Individuality, and Objectification in Nineteenth-Century Animal Autobiographies

Chapter 9 Cathy’s Whip and Heathcliff’s Snarl: Control, Violence, Care, and Rights in Wuthering Heights

Chapter 10 Creatures on the “Night-Side of Nature”: James Thomson’s Melancholy Ethics

Chapter 12 Black Beauty : The Emotional Work of Pretend Play

Chapter 13 Insect Politics in Richard Marsh’s The Beetle