Empire and the animal body : violence, identity and ecology in Victorian adventure fiction / / John Miller [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Miller John <1973->
• Pubblicazione: London : , : Anthem Press, , 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (x, 234 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 823/.809362
• Soggetto topico: English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism; Adventure stories, English - History and criticism; Animals in literature; Ecocriticism; Human-animal relationships in literature; Ecology in literature
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Otherness and order -- Scientists and specimens -- The animal within -- Wild men and wilderness.
• Sommario/riassunto: ‘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.
• Altri titoli varianti: Empire & the Animal Body
• Titolo autorizzato: Empire and the animal body
• ISBN: 1-283-72050-7; 0-85728-549-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910461872203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Anthem Nineteenth-Century Series