Animal Angst
Victorians Memorialize their Pets
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 20057926 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Teresa Mangum (autor de correspondencia) |
| Año | 2017 |
| Páginas | 15-34 |
| Fecha de publicación | 2017-05-15 |
| Open Access | No |
| Tipo | CHAPTER |
| Revista | Victorian Animal Dreams (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Editorial | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.4324/9781315235073-2 |
| OpenAlex | W2903838732 |
| ISBN | 9781315235073 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citas recibidas | 6 |
Londoners of the nineteenth century lived in a veritable animal sensorium. Part science, part sentiment, Charles Darwin's work embodies the longing for reciprocal ardor that innumerable Victorians felt in the presence of animals. Like the Queen, her subjects who could afford to do so sought representational strategies to memorialize their animals—from portraits to tombstones to tourist artifacts to epitaphs, poems, and stories. Animals that could be imagined as pets evoked unique and distinctive sensations that ranged from deliberate avoidance to guilt, dread, fury, longing, deep personal attachment, sentimental idealization, and anthropomorphism. The Victorians sought to understand or at least to justify the intense connection, culminating in terrible loss, they felt for their pets. Clinging to the pleasures of human–animal companionship, Victorian animal lovers may have perversely complicated the deaths of pets and lost sight of other animals as they strove to account for that most complex of simple things—loving and feeling loved
Geography · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Human-Animal Interaction Studies
| Citas por año | 0,43 |
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| Intervalo de citas | 2012 - 2025 (14) |
| Altamente citado | No |