Beastly Possessions : Animals in Victorian Consumer Culture /
Amato, Sarah
Beastly Possessions : Animals in Victorian Consumer Culture / Sarah Amato. - 1 online resource (320 p.) : 41 b&w illustrations
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Social Lives of Pets -- 2. Sexy Beasts, Fallen Felines, and Pampered Pomeranians -- 3. In the Zoo: Civilizing Animals and Displaying People -- 4. The White Elephant in London: On Trickery, Racism, and Advertising -- 5. Dead Things: The Afterlives of Animals -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
In Beastly Possessions, Sarah Amato chronicles the unusual ways in which Victorians of every social class brought animals into their daily lives. Captured, bred, exhibited, collected, and sold, ordinary pets and exotic creatures – as well as their representations – became commodities within Victorian Britain’s flourishing consumer culture.As a pet, an animal could be a companion, a living parlour decoration, and proof of a household’s social and moral status. In the zoo, it could become a public pet, an object of curiosity, a symbol of empire, or even a consumer mascot. Either kind of animal might be painted, photographed, or stuffed as a taxidermic specimen.Using evidence ranging from pet-keeping manuals and scientific treatises to novels, guidebooks, and ephemera, this fascinating, well-illustrated study opens a window into an underexplored aspect of life in Victorian Britain.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781442648746 9781442617599
10.3138/9781442617599 doi
Animals and civilization--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Consumption (Economics)--Social aspects--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Human-animal relationships--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Pets--Social aspects--History--Great Britain--19th century.
HISTORY / General.
306.3094109/034
Beastly Possessions : Animals in Victorian Consumer Culture / Sarah Amato. - 1 online resource (320 p.) : 41 b&w illustrations
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Social Lives of Pets -- 2. Sexy Beasts, Fallen Felines, and Pampered Pomeranians -- 3. In the Zoo: Civilizing Animals and Displaying People -- 4. The White Elephant in London: On Trickery, Racism, and Advertising -- 5. Dead Things: The Afterlives of Animals -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
In Beastly Possessions, Sarah Amato chronicles the unusual ways in which Victorians of every social class brought animals into their daily lives. Captured, bred, exhibited, collected, and sold, ordinary pets and exotic creatures – as well as their representations – became commodities within Victorian Britain’s flourishing consumer culture.As a pet, an animal could be a companion, a living parlour decoration, and proof of a household’s social and moral status. In the zoo, it could become a public pet, an object of curiosity, a symbol of empire, or even a consumer mascot. Either kind of animal might be painted, photographed, or stuffed as a taxidermic specimen.Using evidence ranging from pet-keeping manuals and scientific treatises to novels, guidebooks, and ephemera, this fascinating, well-illustrated study opens a window into an underexplored aspect of life in Victorian Britain.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781442648746 9781442617599
10.3138/9781442617599 doi
Animals and civilization--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Consumption (Economics)--Social aspects--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Human-animal relationships--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Pets--Social aspects--History--Great Britain--19th century.
HISTORY / General.
306.3094109/034