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Animal Welfare in Nineteenth-Century British Literature and Law.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Animal Welfare in Nineteenth-Century British Literature and Law./
Author:	Holt, Kelli M.
Description:	1 online resource (132 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-06, Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International84-06B.
Subject:	English literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=29995086click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9798363508691

Animal Welfare in Nineteenth-Century British Literature and Law.
Holt, Kelli M.

Animal Welfare in Nineteenth-Century British Literature and Law. - 1 online resource (132 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-06, Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2022.

Includes bibliographical references

This dissertation provides an overview of animal-welfare discourse as informed by key Romantic, Victorian, and contemporary Neo-Victorian texts, especially women-authored, and related British legislation. As such, I pose the question, "What can readers glean about animal welfare from literature that readers cannot glean from law?" and vice versa. Answers are complicated by such issues as industrialization, taxes on animals as "luxuries," and the increasing criminalization of (often public) animal cruelty throughout nineteenth-century Britain.Throughout this dissertation, I use the term "bewilderment" to contextualize these questions and answers. I have found women's literature especially salient in this conceptualization because when language seeks a binary opposite to the concept of "man," its most frequent choices are "woman" and "animal." Speaking in quite generalized terms then, women have been on the receiving end of (roughly the same) "bewildered" patriarchal devaluation often visited upon animals as well. With this in mind, I use bewilderment to name the confusion and fear that humans (women and men) have toward other species' animality and their own, resulting in the intellectual or rhetorical disparagement or maltreatment of animals. I therefore posit that most conceptions about animals, harnessed particularly during the Romantic era but enduring in literature, popular culture, and law today, stem from too many humans being thrown by a creature's "wildness," resulting in a physical, emotional, or mental rejection, denial, or otherwise subordination of that creature.By examining "bewildered" presentations of the human-animal relationship within the works of Mary Robinson, Mary Shelley, and Emily Bronte, alongside useful texts by William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron, Charles Dickens, and others, this dissertation helps calibrate the scholarly discussion surrounding the "criminal" animal, animal lover, and animal abuser.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2023

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798363508691Subjects--Topical Terms:

516356
English literature.
Subjects--Index Terms:

British lawIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

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Electronic books.

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