This collection includes twelve provocative essays from a diverse group of international
scholars who utilize a range of interdisciplinary approaches to analyze ¿real¿ and
¿representational¿ animals that stand out as culturally significant to Victorian literature and
culture. Essays focus on a wide range of canonical and non-canonical Victorian writers
including Charles Dickens Anthony Trollope Anna Sewell Emily Bronte James Thomson
Christina Rossetti and Richard Marsh and they focus on a diverse array of forms: fiction
poetry journalism and letters. These essays consider a wide range of cultural attitudes and
literary treatments of animals in the Victorian Age including the development of the animal
protection movement the importation of animals from the expanding Empire the acclimatization
of British animals in other countries and the problems associated with increasing pet
ownership. The collection also includes an Introduction co-written by the editors and
Suggestions for Further Study and will prove of interest to scholars and students across the
multiple disciplines which comprise Animal Studies.
