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Animal Estate : The English and Other Creatures in the Victorian Age by Harriet Ritvo (1987, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherHarvard University Press
ISBN-100674037065
ISBN-139780674037069
eBay Product ID (ePID)497863
Product Key Features
Book TitleAnimal Estate : the English and Other Creatures in the Victorian Age
Number of Pages368 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1987
TopicEurope / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901), Folklore & Mythology, General, Europe / General
IllustratorYes
GenreSocial Science, History
AuthorHarriet Ritvo
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight25.6 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN87-011848
Dewey Edition21
ReviewsThe brilliance of Ritvo's book, my favorite for 1987...[lies] in the particular examples that she has chosen to illustrate the institutional bonds of humans with other animals...She tells so many wonderful stories., This is both an amusing and a valuable book...Harriet Ritvo is concerned primarily with the discussion, use, display of animals as part of a rhetoric of human and class ascendancy. But the material presented here with impressive lucidity and control should interest virtually any reader. And the book is intriguingly and lavishly illustrated, mostly with engravings and woodcuts from sources ranging from Punch to natural histories, stockbreeders' publications, newspapers and paintings...An important book for anyone with an interest in the sociology of animals, and in the more general social history that emerges from its beautifully presented wealth of detail., An unusual social history of Victorian England...Deftly written and generously illustrated, The Animal Estate details the spectrum of Victorian animal concerns: the antivivisection movement, the popularity of zoology, the hunt, the rabies panic (not unlike today's pit bull hysteria), and more. The reader will come out with a fuller understanding of the Victorian people and the development of our bonds with animals.
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Dewey Decimal306.4/0942/09034
LC Classification NumberSF53.R58 1987
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