ISBN: 9780226576374

Description: vii, 219 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-213) and index.

Contents:

• Home, animal, novel
• Petted things: cruelty and sympathy in the Brontës
• Dying like a dog in Dickens
• Middlemarch's brute life
• Using and pitying animals in Thomas Hardy
• Tracking animal agency in Conan Doyle and Hardy
• "Infinite compassion": nonhuman life in Schreiner's The story of an African farm.

LCCN: 2018016687

Control Number: 2646535

Series:

• Animal lives
• Animal lives (University of Chicago. Press)

Subjects:

• Animals in literature.
• English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
• Human-animal relationships in literature.
• Pets in literature.