The first full-length study of animals in Jane Austen, Barbara K. Seeber s book situates the author s work within the serious debates about human-animal relations that began in the eighteenth century and continued into Austen s lifetime. Seeber shows that Austen s writings consistently align the objectification of nature with that of women and that Austen associates the hunting, shooting, racing, and consuming of animals with the domination of women. Austen s complicated depictions of the use and abuse of nature also challenge postcolonial readings that interpret, for example, Fanny Price s...