TY  - BOOK
AU  - Amato,Sarah
TI  - Beastly Possessions: Animals in Victorian Consumer Culture 
SN  - 9781442648746
U1  - 306.3094109/034 23
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - Toronto : 
PB  - University of Toronto Press, 
KW  - Animals and civilization
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Consumption (Economics)
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Human-animal relationships
KW  - Pets
KW  - HISTORY / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442617599
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781442617599
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ER  -