Victorian fiction and the cult of the horse /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2006], ©2006. |
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Table of Contents:
- All the queen's horses : Victorian culture and the "definition of a horse"
- Handling the "iron horse" : Dickens, travel, and the derailing of Victorian masculinity
- Horsebreaking and homemaking : horsey heroines and destabilized domesticity in the sensation fiction of Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Horses and corsets : Black Beauty, dress reform, and the fashioning of the Victorian woman
- Reading and riding : late-century aesthetics and the cultural economy of the turf in George Moore's Esther Waters
- Urban ironies and the modern mind : horses after Victoria.