Animals and Their Children in Victorian Culture

Introduction: Little Beasts on Tight Leashes

Brenda Ayres and Sarah E. Maier

Chapter 1

Why Did the Cow Jump over the Moon? Animals (but Mostly Pussies) in Nursery Rhymes

Brenda Ayres

Chapter 2

Wanted Dead or Alive: Rabbits in Victorian Children's Literature

Keridiana Chez

Chapter 3

"In friendly chat with bird or beast ... mixing together things grave and gay": Desireful Animals and Humans in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass

Anna Koustinoudi

Chapter 4

A Brotherhood of Wolves: Loyalty in Yiddish and Anglo-Jewish Folktales

Lindsay Katzir and Brandon Katzir

Chapter 5

Advocating for the Least of These: Empowering Children and Animals in The Band of Mercy Advocate

Alisa Clapp-Itnyre

Chapter 6

Bush Animals, Developmental Time, and Colonial Identity in Victorian Australian Children's Fiction

Christie Harner

Chapter 7

The Serpent; or, the Real King of the Jungle

Stephen Basdeo

Chapter 8

Learning Masculinity: Education, Boyhood, and the Animal in Thomas Hughes' Tom Brown's School Days

Alicia Alves

Chapter 9

Unruly Females on the Farm: Farmed Animal Mothers and the Dismantling of the Species Hierarchy in 19th Century Literature for Children

Stacy Hoult-Saros

Chapter 10

The Child is Father of the Man: Lessons Animals Teach Children in George Eliot's Writings

Constance Fulmer

Chapter 11

Neither Brutes nor Beasts: Animals, Children and Young Persons and/in the Brontes

Sarah E. Maier

Chapter 12

Animals, Children, and the Fantasies of the Circus

Susan Nance

Chapter 13

Imperial Pets: Monkey-Girls, Man-Cubs, and Dog-Faced Boys on Exhibition in Victorian Britain

Shannon Scott