Author: Frances Power Cobbe
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Category : Vivisection
Languages : en
Pages : 184
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The Nine Circles; Or, The Torture of the Innocent
Author: Frances Power Cobbe
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Category : Vivisection
Languages : en
Pages : 184
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Category : Vivisection
Languages : en
Pages : 184
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What It Means to be Human
Author: Joanna Bourke
Publisher: Catapult
ISBN: 1619021676
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
In 1872, a woman known only as "An Earnest Englishwoman" published a letter titled "Are Women Animals?" in which she protested against the fact that women were not treated as fully human. In fact, their status was worse than that of animals: regulations prohibiting cruelty against dogs, horses, and cattle were significantly more punitive than laws against cruelty to women. The Earnest Englishwoman's heartfelt cry was for women to "become–animal" in order to gain the status that they were denied on the grounds that they were not part of "mankind." In this fascinating account, Joanna Bourke addresses the profound question of what it means to be "human" rather than "animal." How are people excluded from political personhood? How does one become entitled to rights? The distinction between the two concepts is a blurred line, permanently under construction. If the Earnest Englishwoman had been capable of looking 100 years into the future, she might have wondered about the human status of chimeras, or the ethics of stem cell research. Political disclosures and scientific advances have been re–locating the human–animal border at an alarming speed. In this meticulously researched, illuminating book, Bourke explores the legacy of more than two centuries, and looks forward into what the future might hold for humans, women, and animals.
Publisher: Catapult
ISBN: 1619021676
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
In 1872, a woman known only as "An Earnest Englishwoman" published a letter titled "Are Women Animals?" in which she protested against the fact that women were not treated as fully human. In fact, their status was worse than that of animals: regulations prohibiting cruelty against dogs, horses, and cattle were significantly more punitive than laws against cruelty to women. The Earnest Englishwoman's heartfelt cry was for women to "become–animal" in order to gain the status that they were denied on the grounds that they were not part of "mankind." In this fascinating account, Joanna Bourke addresses the profound question of what it means to be "human" rather than "animal." How are people excluded from political personhood? How does one become entitled to rights? The distinction between the two concepts is a blurred line, permanently under construction. If the Earnest Englishwoman had been capable of looking 100 years into the future, she might have wondered about the human status of chimeras, or the ethics of stem cell research. Political disclosures and scientific advances have been re–locating the human–animal border at an alarming speed. In this meticulously researched, illuminating book, Bourke explores the legacy of more than two centuries, and looks forward into what the future might hold for humans, women, and animals.
The nine circles of the Hell of the innocent, described from the reports of the presiding spirits, compiled by G.M. Rhodes
Author: Hell
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Languages : en
Pages : 188
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Languages : en
Pages : 188
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The Animal's Defender and Zoophilist
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Category : Vivisection
Languages : en
Pages : 564
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Category : Vivisection
Languages : en
Pages : 564
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Rediscovering Victorian Women Sensation Writers
Author: Anne-Marie Beller
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317754018
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Scholarly understanding of the Victorian literary field has changed dramatically in the past thirty years, due in large part to the extensive recovery of sensation fiction and a corresponding recognition of that genre’s importance in the literary debates, trends, and wider cultural practices of the period. Yet until very recently, work on sensationalism has focused on a narrow range of authors and works, with Wilkie Collins, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, and Ellen Wood retaining the preponderance of critical attention. This collection examines the fiction of ten women sensation writers who were immensely popular in the Victorian period but remain critically neglected today – writers such as Annie Edwardes, M.C. Houstoun, Annie French, Dora Russell and others. The Victorian sensation novel was categorically associated with women by Victorian reviewers and this collection extends our current understanding of this sub-genre by showing that female sensation writers were often sophisticated in their textual strategies, employing a range of metafictional techniques and narrative innovations. By moving beyond the novelists who have come to represent the genre, this book presents a fuller, more nuanced, understanding of the spectrum of writing that constructed the concept of ‘sensationalism’ for Victorian readers and critics. The book was originally published as a special issue of Women’s Writing.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317754018
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Scholarly understanding of the Victorian literary field has changed dramatically in the past thirty years, due in large part to the extensive recovery of sensation fiction and a corresponding recognition of that genre’s importance in the literary debates, trends, and wider cultural practices of the period. Yet until very recently, work on sensationalism has focused on a narrow range of authors and works, with Wilkie Collins, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, and Ellen Wood retaining the preponderance of critical attention. This collection examines the fiction of ten women sensation writers who were immensely popular in the Victorian period but remain critically neglected today – writers such as Annie Edwardes, M.C. Houstoun, Annie French, Dora Russell and others. The Victorian sensation novel was categorically associated with women by Victorian reviewers and this collection extends our current understanding of this sub-genre by showing that female sensation writers were often sophisticated in their textual strategies, employing a range of metafictional techniques and narrative innovations. By moving beyond the novelists who have come to represent the genre, this book presents a fuller, more nuanced, understanding of the spectrum of writing that constructed the concept of ‘sensationalism’ for Victorian readers and critics. The book was originally published as a special issue of Women’s Writing.
The imperial and Asiatic quarterly review
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Languages : en
Pages : 520
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Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 520
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Report of the Librarian and Annual Supplement to the General Catalogue
Author: State Library of Massachusetts
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Languages : en
Pages : 260
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Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Science Images and Popular Images of the Sciences
Author: Peter Weingart
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134175809
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
What is a popular image of science and where does it come from? Little is known about the formation of science images and their transformation into popular images of science. In this anthology, contributions from two areas of expertise: image theory and history and the sociology of the sciences, explore techniques of constructing science images and transforming them into highly ambivalent images that represent the sciences. The essays, most of them with illustrations, present evidence that popular images of the sciences are based upon abstract theories rather than facts, and, equally, images of scientists are stimulated by imagination rather than historical knowledge.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134175809
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
What is a popular image of science and where does it come from? Little is known about the formation of science images and their transformation into popular images of science. In this anthology, contributions from two areas of expertise: image theory and history and the sociology of the sciences, explore techniques of constructing science images and transforming them into highly ambivalent images that represent the sciences. The essays, most of them with illustrations, present evidence that popular images of the sciences are based upon abstract theories rather than facts, and, equally, images of scientists are stimulated by imagination rather than historical knowledge.
The Literary World
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Languages : en
Pages : 604
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Languages : en
Pages : 604
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The Imperial and Asiatic Quarterly Review and Oriental and Colonial Record
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Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Beginning Apr. 1895, includes the Proceedings of the East India Association.
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Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Beginning Apr. 1895, includes the Proceedings of the East India Association.