Beastly arrangements: animals, classification, and literary form, circa 1830-1870

<p>This thesis constructs a new literary history of animals in Victorian literature by focusing on questions of categorisation and classification. Noting that the nineteenth-century obsession with taxonomy—what Harriet Ritvo has termed the ‘classifying imagination’—is perceptible not only in t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Westwood, B
Other Authors: Douglas-Fairhurst, R
Format: Thesis
Published: 2018