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Author | : Sarah Amato |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 317 |
Release | : 2015-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1442648740 |
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In Beastly Possessions, Sarah Amato chronicles the unusual ways in which Victorians of every social class brought animals into their daily lives. Captured, bred, exhibited, collected, and sold, ordinary pets and exotic creatures as well as their representations became commodities within Victorian Britain's flourishing consumer culture. As a pet, an animal could be a companion, a living parlour decoration, and proof of a household's social and moral status. In the zoo, it could become a public pet, an object of curiosity, a symbol of empire, or even a consumer mascot. Either kind of animal might be painted, photographed, or stuffed as a taxidermic specimen. Using evidence ranging from pet-keeping manuals and scientific treatises to novels, guidebooks, and ephemera, this fascinating, well-illustrated study opens a window into an underexplored aspect of life in Victorian Britain.
Author | : Sarah Amato |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 317 |
Release | : 2015-11-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1442617608 |
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In Beastly Possessions, Sarah Amato chronicles the unusual ways in which Victorians of every social class brought animals into their daily lives. Captured, bred, exhibited, collected, and sold, ordinary pets and exotic creatures – as well as their representations – became commodities within Victorian Britain’s flourishing consumer culture. As a pet, an animal could be a companion, a living parlour decoration, and proof of a household’s social and moral status. In the zoo, it could become a public pet, an object of curiosity, a symbol of empire, or even a consumer mascot. Either kind of animal might be painted, photographed, or stuffed as a taxidermic specimen. Using evidence ranging from pet-keeping manuals and scientific treatises to novels, guidebooks, and ephemera, this fascinating, well-illustrated study opens a window into an underexplored aspect of life in Victorian Britain.
Author | : Sarah Amato |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : POLITICAL SCIENCE |
ISBN | : 9781442617599 |
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Author | : Donna Leon |
Publisher | : Grove/Atlantic, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 221 |
Release | : 2012-04-03 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0802194508 |
Download Beastly Things Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A New York Times bestseller: The police investigate the death of a veterinarian in Venice, Italy in this “swiftly paced” mystery (The Seattle Times). When the body of man is found in a canal, damaged by the tides, carrying no wallet, and wearing only one shoe, Guido Brunetti has little to work with. No local has filed a missing-person report, and no hotel guests have disappeared. The autopsy shows he had suffered from a rare, disfiguring disease. A shopkeeper tells Brunetti that the man had a kindly way with animals. Finally, the victim is identified as a much-loved veterinarian—and Brunetti’s quest to find the killer will take him on a harrowing journey . . . “All her trademark strengths shine in this swiftly paced, sophisticated tale of greed versus ethics.” —The Seattle Times “Written with such delicacy and emotional force that we can’t help but be reminded of Greek tragedy.” —Booklist, starred review
Author | : Wiley Miller |
Publisher | : Andrews McMeel Publishing |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2013-07-30 |
Genre | : Humor |
ISBN | : 0740798677 |
Download Non Sequitur's Beastly Things Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
If a cartoonist successfully captures life's humorous and ironic moments in three short panels, readers applaud. When Wiley does the same in his single-scene format, they roll on the carpet laughing. Non Sequitur not only breaks the three-panel mold, it succeeds without regular characters, standard settings, or repeat situations to fall back on. Each piece, in other words, hangs out there as Wiley's snapshot of the worlds of work, leisure, and life's many crossroads. Non Sequitur's Beastly Things, as guided by Rolf the dog, keeps readers howling, growling, and scratching for more. You will delight, for instance, in crocodiles luring fishermen with dollar bills, Randy the science lab kid who announces that his homework ate his dog, and the desert dweller who celebrates the change of season by raking needles beneath his cacti.
Author | : Chris Pearson |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2021-08-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 022679816X |
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Straying -- Biting -- Suffering -- Thinking -- Defecating.
Author | : Horace Walpole |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 2018-04-05 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3732641430 |
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Reproduction of the original: The Gods and Mr. Perrin by Horace Walpole
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Total Pages | : 730 |
Release | : 1903 |
Genre | : Literature, Modern |
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Author | : Ann C. Colley |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 219 |
Release | : 2016-02-11 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1134766459 |
Download Wild Animal Skins in Victorian Britain Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
What did the 13th Earl of Derby, his twenty-two-year-old niece, Manchester’s Belle Vue Zoo, and even some ordinary laborers all have in common? All were avid collectors and exhibitors of exotic, and frequently unruly, specimens. In her study of Britain’s craze for natural history collecting, Ann C. Colley makes extensive use of archival materials to examine the challenges, preoccupations, and disordered circumstances that attended the amassing of specimens from faraway places only vaguely known to the British public. As scientific institutions sent collectors to bring back exotic animals and birds for study and classification by anatomists and zoologist, it soon became apparent that collecting skins rather than live animals or birds was a relatively more manageable endeavor. Colley looks at the collecting, exhibiting, and portraying of animal skins to show their importance as trophies of empire and representations of identity. While a zoo might display skins to promote and glorify Britain’s colonial achievements, Colley suggests that the reality of collecting was characterized more by chaos than imperial order. For example, Edward Lear’s commissioned illustrations of the Earl of Derby’s extensive collection challenge the colonial’s or collector’s commanding gaze, while the Victorian public demonstrated a yearning to connect with their own wildness by touching the skins of animals. Colley concludes with a discussion of the metaphorical uses of wild skins by Gerard Manley Hopkins and other writers, exploring the idea of skin as a locus of memory and touch where one’s past can be traced in the same way that nineteenth-century mapmakers charted a landscape. Throughout the book Colley calls upon recent theories about the nature and function of skin and touch to structure her discussion of the Victorian fascination with wild animal skins.
Author | : Robert L. Patten |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 848 |
Release | : 2018-09-13 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0191061115 |
Download The Oxford Handbook of Charles Dickens Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Oxford Handbook of Charles Dickens is a comprehensive and up-to-date collection on Dickens's life and works. It includes original chapters on all of Dickens's writing and new considerations of his contexts, from the social, political, and economic to the scientific, commercial, and religious. The contributions speak in new ways about his depictions of families, environmental degradation, and improvements of the industrial age, as well as the law, charity, and communications. His treatment of gender, his mastery of prose in all its varieties and genres, and his range of affects and dramatization all come under stimulating reconsideration. His understanding of British history, of empire and colonization, of his own nation and foreign ones, and of selfhood and otherness, like all the other topics, is explained in terms easy to comprehend and profoundly relevant to global modernity.