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Category : Mammals
Languages : en
Pages : 310
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The Animal Museum, Or, Picture Gallery of Quadrupeds
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Category : Mammals
Languages : en
Pages : 310
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The Animal Estate
Author: Harriet RitvoPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674266730
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
When we think about the Victorian age, we usually envision people together with animals: the Queen and her pugs, the sportsman with horses and hounds, the big game hunter with his wild kill, the gentleman farmer with a prize bull. Harriet Ritvo here gives us a vivid picture of how animals figured in English thinking during the nineteenth century and, by extension, how they served as metaphors for human psychological needs and sociopolitical aspirations. Victorian England was a period of burgeoning scientific cattle breeding and newly fashionable dog shows; an age of Empire and big game hunting; an era of reform and reformers that saw the birth of the Royal SPCA. Ritvo examines Victorian thinking about animals in the context of other lines of thought: evolution, class structure, popular science and natural history, imperial domination. The papers and publications of people and organizations concerned with agricultural breeding, veterinary medicine, the world of pets, vivisection and other humane causes, zoos, hunting at home and abroad, all reveal underlying assumptions and deeply held convictions—for example, about Britain’s imperial enterprise, social discipline, and the hierarchy of orders, in nature and in human society. Thus this book contributes a new new topic of inquiry to Victorian studies; its combination of rhetorical analysis with more conventional methods of historical research offers a novel perspective on Victorian culture. And because nineteenth-century attitudes and practices were often the ancestors of contemporary ones, this perspective can also inform modern debates about human–animal interactions.
The Little Grammarian; Or, An Easy Guide to the Parts of Speech,
Author: William FletcherPublisher:
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 206
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Scenes of Industry
Author: Christian Isobel JohnstonePublisher:
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Category : Ants
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Factual information on bees and ants presented within a fictional framework.
Catalogue of the Educational Division of the South Kensington Museum
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Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
British Museum Catalogue of printed Books
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 782
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Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 682
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The London Catalogue of Books, with Their Sizes, Prices, and Publishers
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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The London Catalogue of Books, with Their Sizes, Prices, and Publishers. Containing the Books Published in London ... Since the Year 1800 to March 1827
Author: CataloguesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
The Literary Gazette
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 844
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