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

by John Miller

Book Overview

'Empire and the Animal Body: Violence, Identity and Ecology in Victorian Adventure Fiction' explores representations of exotic animals in Victorian adventure fiction, mainly in works by R. M. Ballantyne, G. A. Henty, G. M. Fenn, Paul du Chaillu, H. Rider Haggard and John Buchan. These primary texts are concerned with Southern and West Africa, India and what is now Indonesia in the period 1860-1910, an era which comprises imperial expansion, consolidation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0857285343
• ISBN13: 9780857285348
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"