Ladies Pets and the Politics of Affect: Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Flush.
An essay is presented on Victorian sentimentality towards pets using the epistolary of Elizabeth Barret Browning. Biographers like Meredith Raymond and Mary Rose Sullivan, claim that Browning's "philodoggery" writings for her Cocker Spaniel dog, Flush, reveal the sentimental relationship of women to...
| Publicado en: | Australian Literary Studies Vol. 25; no. 2; pp. 17 - 35 |
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Australian Literary Studies
2010
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| Sumario: | An essay is presented on Victorian sentimentality towards pets using the epistolary of Elizabeth Barret Browning. Biographers like Meredith Raymond and Mary Rose Sullivan, claim that Browning's "philodoggery" writings for her Cocker Spaniel dog, Flush, reveal the sentimental relationship of women to their pet dogs during the Victorian period in England. Pets during this period served as outlets for affection as society is introduced to urbanization, according to Yi-Fu Tuan's "Dominance and Affection: The Making of Pets." |
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