All the Happy Endings: A Study of the Domestic Novel in America, the Women who Wrote it, the Women who Read it, in the Nineteenth Century.

1958 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 123
Author(s):  
Herbert Brown ◽  
Helen Waite Papashvily
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Domestic Novel

The Daughter's Dilemma: Family Process and the Nineteenth-Century Domestic Novel

1993 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 110
Author(s):  
Rachel M. Brownstein ◽  
Paula Marantz Cohen
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Family Process ◽  
Domestic Novel

The Rights of Beasts in the Early Nineteenth Century

2020 ◽  
pp. 217-248
Author(s):  
Jane Spencer
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Animal Welfare ◽  
Animal Rights ◽  
Legal Rights ◽  
Complex Relationship ◽  
Animal Life ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
Domestic Novel ◽  
Political Ideas ◽  
Cruelty To Animals

This chapter argues that the parliamentary animal welfare campaign of the early nineteenth century, culminating in Martin’s Act (1822), was the heir to the radical movements of the 1790s. The literary representation of animals as feeling subjects, and the complex relationship between human and animal rights, both had profound effects on the anti-cruelty debate. Focusing on contributions by John Lawrence, an early exponent of legal rights for animals, Thomas Erskine, who introduced an unsuccessful Cruelty to Animals bill in 1809, and Margaret Cullen, who brought the debate about animals into the domestic novel, I show how they used and adapted radical political ideas in the service of animal welfare. The literature of animal subjectivity underpinned the anti-cruelty campaign and helped achieve legislation; but success depended on melding new attitudes with old hierarchies and turning away from the more radical implications of the reassessment of animal life.

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