The Empire of Beasts Then and Now: Political Cartoons and New Trends in Victorian Animal Studies

Victorians were obsessed with animals and used them pervasively in fiction and press as proxies for human races. This article attempts to analyse the animal display as a political commentary in the visual images of Punch or The London Charivari Magazine in the aftermath of the 1857 Mutiny and the gr...

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Main Author: Irina Kantarbaeva-Bill
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée 2021-06-01
Series:Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/cve/8989