Monica Flegel: 2 books
Conceptualizing Cruelty to Children in Nineteenth-Century England
Literature, Representation, and the NSPCC
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Moving nimbly between literary and historical texts, Monica Flegel provides a much-needed interpretive framework for understanding the specific formulation of child cruelty popularized by the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) in the late nineteenth century. Flegel...
Pets and Domesticity in Victorian Literature and Culture
Animality, Queer Relations, and the Victorian Family
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
Addressing the significance of the pet in the Victorian period, this book examines the role played by the domestic pet in delineating relations for each member of the "natural" family home. Flegel explores the pet in relation to the couple at the head of the house, to the children who make...