Victorian Dogs, Victorian Men: Affect and Animals in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
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Copyright
Dedication
CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION: The Rise of the Prosthetic Dog
BECOMING HUMAN(E)
THE FAITHFUL CANINE PROSTHESIS
CHAPTER SUMMARIES
CHAPTER 1: Happy Families in Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield and Oliver Twist
THE COMICAL GO-BETWEEN
THE SYMPATHETIC CRIMINAL
CONCLUSION
CHAPTER 2: Canine Connections in George Eliot’s Adam Bede and
Middlemarch
INTERSPECIES PROSTHESES
SYMPATHETIC CONNECTIONS
MERELY CANINE AFFECTION
CONCLUSION
CHAPTER 3: The Ugly Animal in Margaret Marshall Saunders’s Beautiful Joe and Beautiful Joe’s Paradise
A DOG IS BEING BEATEN
UGLY BEAUTY
THE POWER OF MASCULINE PITY
“THE STRONGER PET THE WEAKER”
CONCLUSION
CHAPTER 4: Deceptive Docility in Bram Stoker’s Dracula
RABID DOGS, RABID WOMEN
SELF-MASTERY, SURVEILLANCE, AND DESTRUCTION
DRACULA AS RABID TEXT
CONCLUSION
CHAPTER 5: The Bare-Dog in Jack London’s Call of the Wild and White Fang
VAGABOND DANDIES
SEXUALIZED PROSTHESES
CONCLUSION
CONCLUSION
WORKS CITED
INDEX