Black Beauty

ISBN-13: 9781554812882 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 248 str.

Anna Sewell; Kristin Guest

Opis

Anna Sewell's Black Beauty is a classic work of children's literature and an important text in the fields of Victorian studies and animal studies.

Spis treści

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Anna Sewell: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text
Glossary of Carriages

Black Beauty: His Grooms and Companions. The Autobiography of a Horse.

Appendix A: Biographical Context and Early Reception

1. From Mary Bayly, The Life and Letters of Mrs. Sewell (1890)
2. George T. Angell, “Introductory Chapter” to the American Humane Education Society Edition (1890)
3. Review of Black Beauty, The Nonconformist (9 January 1878)

Appendix B: Victorian Science: Questions of Animal Emotion

1. From Charles Darwin, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872)
2. From Thomas Huxley, “On the Hypothesis that Animals Are Automata, and Its History” (1874)
3. From George Romanes, Animal Intelligence (1882)
4. From George Romanes, Mental Evolution in Animals (1884)

Appendix C: Victorian Industry: Horse and Machine

1. From Fanny Kemble, Record of a Girlhood (1878)
2. From Philip Hamerton, Chapters on Animals (1874)
3. From W.J. Gordon, The Horse World of London (1893)

Appendix D: Animal Cruelty and Animal Rights

1. From Frances Power Cobbe, “The Rights of Man and the Claims of Brutes” (1865)
2. From John Duke Coleridge, The Lord Chief Justice of England [Baron Coleridge] on Vivisection (1881)
3. From Henry Salt, Animal Rights Considered in Relation to Social Progress (1892)

Appendix E: Bits, Bearing Reins, and Equine Management

1. From Henry Curling, A Lashing for the Lashers: Being an Exposition of the Cruelties Practised upon the Cab and Omnibus Horses of London (1851)
2. From Sir Arthur Helps, Some Talk about Animals and Their Masters (1873)
3. From Samuel Sidney, The Book of the Horse (1873)
4. From Edward Fordham Flower, Bits and Bearing Reins (1875)
5. From Samuel Smiles, Duty (1880)

Works Cited and Select Bibliography