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Animals in Victorian Literature and Culture; Acknowledgments; Contents; List of Figures; 1 Introduction; Notes; Works Cited; Part I Animals in the Victorians' World; 2 Collecting the Live and the Skinned; The Correspondence; Class; Methods of Acquisition; Packing and Shipping; Conclusion; Notes; Works Cited; 3 Dickens, Household Words, and the Smithfield Controversy at the Time of the Great Exhibition; Notes; Works Cited; 4 Beasts, Birds, Fishes, and Reptiles: Anthony Trollope and the Australian Acclimatization Debate; Notes; Works Cited
5 Dogs' Homes and Lethal Chambers, or, What Was it Like to be a Battersea Dog?Lost Dogs: 1867; Lethal Chambers: 1895; Domesticated Killing; What was it Like to be a Battersea Dog? Reading Against the Grain with Percival's Dog; Notes; Works Cited; Part II Animals in the Victorians' Literature; 6 Bull's-eye, Agency, and the Species Divide in Oliver Twist: a Cur's-Eye View; Notes; Works Cited; 7 Performing Animals/Performing Humanity; Works Cited; 8 "I Declare I Never Saw so Lovely an Animal!": Beauty, Individuality, and Objectification in Nineteenth-Century Animal Autobiographies
Animals, Women, and the Meaning of BeautyBeauty, Power, and Individuality; The Fragility of Beauty; The Fear of Complete Objectification; Critiques of Beauty; Conclusion: "I Wanted the Other Three, My Beautiful Tabbies"; Notes; Works Cited; 9 Cathy's Whip and Heathcliff's Snarl: Control, Violence, Care, and Rights in Wuthering Heights; Relational Representations; Winking at Violence; Care and Property: "Who is to Look After the Horses?"; The Utility of "Horse-Fit Clatter" and the "Jealous Guardianship" of Alarming Barks
Gnashing and "Mad Dog" Foaming and the Choice Not to "Coom" at a "Whistle"Citizen Animal; Note; Works Cited; 10 Creatures on the "Night-Side of Nature": James Thomson's Melancholy Ethics; God and Other Problems; Evolution, "The Human," and "The Animal"; "Down, Down to the Deepest Deep"; Animal Ethics in a Dark Ecology; Notes; Works Cited; 11 "Come Buy, Come Buy!": Christina Rossetti and the Victorian Animal Market; Works Cited; 12 Black Beauty: The Emotional Work of Pretend Play; The Available; Horseplay; Notes; Works Cited; 13 Insect Politics in Richard Marsh's The Beetle; Introduction
Insects in the Long Nineteenth-Century ImaginationInsects and Politics; Britain's Beetle Scare; Economy of Entomophobia in The Beetle; Becoming-Beetle, Becoming-Woman: Lessingham and Marjorie; Notes; Works Cited; Sources for Further Study; Index
5 Dogs' Homes and Lethal Chambers, or, What Was it Like to be a Battersea Dog?Lost Dogs: 1867; Lethal Chambers: 1895; Domesticated Killing; What was it Like to be a Battersea Dog? Reading Against the Grain with Percival's Dog; Notes; Works Cited; Part II Animals in the Victorians' Literature; 6 Bull's-eye, Agency, and the Species Divide in Oliver Twist: a Cur's-Eye View; Notes; Works Cited; 7 Performing Animals/Performing Humanity; Works Cited; 8 "I Declare I Never Saw so Lovely an Animal!": Beauty, Individuality, and Objectification in Nineteenth-Century Animal Autobiographies
Animals, Women, and the Meaning of BeautyBeauty, Power, and Individuality; The Fragility of Beauty; The Fear of Complete Objectification; Critiques of Beauty; Conclusion: "I Wanted the Other Three, My Beautiful Tabbies"; Notes; Works Cited; 9 Cathy's Whip and Heathcliff's Snarl: Control, Violence, Care, and Rights in Wuthering Heights; Relational Representations; Winking at Violence; Care and Property: "Who is to Look After the Horses?"; The Utility of "Horse-Fit Clatter" and the "Jealous Guardianship" of Alarming Barks
Gnashing and "Mad Dog" Foaming and the Choice Not to "Coom" at a "Whistle"Citizen Animal; Note; Works Cited; 10 Creatures on the "Night-Side of Nature": James Thomson's Melancholy Ethics; God and Other Problems; Evolution, "The Human," and "The Animal"; "Down, Down to the Deepest Deep"; Animal Ethics in a Dark Ecology; Notes; Works Cited; 11 "Come Buy, Come Buy!": Christina Rossetti and the Victorian Animal Market; Works Cited; 12 Black Beauty: The Emotional Work of Pretend Play; The Available; Horseplay; Notes; Works Cited; 13 Insect Politics in Richard Marsh's The Beetle; Introduction
Insects in the Long Nineteenth-Century ImaginationInsects and Politics; Britain's Beetle Scare; Economy of Entomophobia in The Beetle; Becoming-Beetle, Becoming-Woman: Lessingham and Marjorie; Notes; Works Cited; Sources for Further Study; Index