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Hanging, crushing, and shooting: animals, violence and child-rearing in Bronte fiction
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Ranging across novels by Anne, Emily and Charlotte Brontë, Sally Shuttleworth’s chapter investigates the animal/human (and animal/child) divide as envisaged through violence, complicity and humane necessity. The idea of the human was interwoven with that of the animal for the Brontës more so than for any other novelists in the nineteenth century, and Shuttleworth addresses in detail three key moments of animal cruelty: the hanging of Isabella’s dog in Wuthering ...
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- Cambridge University Press Publisher's website
- Host title:
- Brontës and the Idea of the Human: Science, Ethics, and the Victorian Imagination
- Series:
- Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
- Publication date:
- 2019-05-16
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- ISBN-10:
- 1107154812
- ISBN-13:
- 9781107154810
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- 2019
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- © 2019 Cambridge University Press. This is the Accepted Manuscript version of the chapter. The final version is available online from Cambridge University Press at: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316651063
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