Empire and the Animal Body: Violence, Identity and Ecology in Victorian Adventure Fiction

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John Miller

Empire and the Animal Body

Violence, Identity and Ecology in Victorian Adventure Fiction

John Miller

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Anthem Press
16 October 2012

Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers

Series: Anthem Nineteenth-Century Series

'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.

By: John Miller
Imprint: Anthem Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 153mm, Spine: 26mm
Weight: 590g
ISBN: 9780857285348
ISBN 10: 0857285343
Series: Anthem Nineteenth-Century Series
Pages: 244
Publication Date: 16 October 2012
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1: Otherness and Order; Chapter 2: Scientists and Specimens; Chapter 3: The Animal Within; Chapter 4: Wild Men and Wilderness; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index

John Miller is currently a lecturer in nineteenth-century literature at the University of Sheffield. He has published widely on animal studies and ecocriticism, particularly in relation to British Empire writing and postcolonial studies.

Reviews for Empire and the Animal Body: Violence, Identity and Ecology in Victorian Adventure Fiction

'[Miller] discusses the experience of the hunt as domination of the Other, big game as and economic resource, and the attempts to regulate the disappearance of endangered species, which often resulted in increased control over colonial subjects.' -Adela Pinch, 'Studies in English Literature'