Animals and Their Children in Victorian Culture

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Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Contents List of Figures Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction: Little Beasts on Tight Leashes 1 Why Did the Cow Jump Over the Moon? Animals (But Mostly Pussies) in Nursery Rhymes 2 Wanted Dead or Alive: Rabbits in Victorian Children’s Literature 3 “In Friendly Chat with Bird or Beast … Mixing Together Things Grave and Gay”: Desireful Animals and Humans in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass 4 A Brotherhood of Wolves: Loyalty in Yiddish and Anglo-Jewish Folktales 5 Advocating for the Least of These: Empowering Children and Animals in The Band of Mercy Advocate 6 Bush Animals, Developmental Time, and Colonial Identity in Victorian Australian Children’s Fiction 7 The Serpent; or, the Real King of the Jungle 8 Learning Masculinity: Education, Boyhood, and the Animal in Thomas Hughes’s Tom Brown’s School Days 9 Unruly Females on the Farm: Domestic Animal Mothers and the Dismantling of the Species Hierarchy in Nineteenth-Century Literature for Children 10 The Child Is Father of the Man: Lessons Animals Teach Children in George Eliot’s Writings 11 Neither Brutes nor Beasts: Animals, Children, and Young Persons and/in the Brontës 12 Children, Animals, and the Fantasies of the Circus 13 Imperial Pets: Monkey-Girls, Man-Cubs, and Dog-Faced Boys on Exhibition in Victorian Britain Note on Contributors Index