Talking Animals in British Children's Fiction, 1786-1914

By Tess Cosslett

Book Overview

Nineteenth-century scholars, children's literature specialists, and historians of science and childhood will engage with Tess Cosslett's examination of nineteenth-century debates about the human and animal in children's stories such as Black Beauty, Beautiful Joe, Wind in the Willows, and Peter Rabbit. Investigating these works within their nineteenth-century contexts, Cosslett takes on topics that still resonate, such as the relation of the human and the natural, masculine and feminine, and child and adult.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0754636569
• ISBN13: 9780754636564
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"