Empire and the Animal Body: Violence, Identity and Ecology in Victorian Adventure Fiction explores representations of exotic animals in Victorian adventure fiction, mainly in works by R. M. Ballantyne, G. A. Henty, G. M. Fenn, Paul du Chaillu, H. Rider Haggard and John Buchan. These primary texts are concerned with Southern and West Africa, India and what is now Indonesia in the period 1860 1910, an era which comprises imperial expansion, consolidation and the beginnings of imperial decline. Representations of exotic animals in such literary works generally revolve around portrayals of...
Empire and the Animal Body: Violence, Identity and Ecology in Victorian Adventure Fiction explores representations of exotic animals in Victorian ...
