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- Title
The Emotional Extravagance of Victorian Pet-Keeping.
- Authors
KREILKAMP, IVAN
- Abstract
The article discusses the practice of keeping pets in Victorian England, focusing on the role pets serve in domestic spaces and as wild animals in the books "A Thousand Plateaus" by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari and "Domestic Pets: Their Habits & Management" by Jane Webb Loudon. Other topics include the economic, emotional, and cultural aspects of pets, how pets help shape family boundaries in Victorian literature, and the domestication of animals.
- Subjects
THOUSAND Plateaus, A (Book); DOMESTIC Pets: Their Habits &; Management (Book); DELEUZE, Gilles, 1925-1995; GUATTARI, Felix, 1930-1992; LOUDON, Jane Webb, 1807-1858; PETS in literature; DOMESTICATION of animals; 19TH century English literature; LITERARY criticism; HISTORY
- Publication
Victorian Review, 2013, Vol 39, Issue 2, p71
- ISSN
0848-1512
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1353/vcr.2013.0045