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At Home and Astray: The Domestic Dog in Victorian Britain

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By (author): Philip Howell

Although the British consider themselves a nation of dog lovers, what we have come to know as the modern dog came into existence only after a profound, and relatively recent, transformation in that countrys social attitudes and practices. In At Home and Astray, Philip Howell focuses on Victorian Britain, and especially London, to show how the dogs changing place in society was the subject of intense debate and depended on a fascinating combination of forces even to come about.

Despite a relationship with humans going back thousands of years, the dog only became fully domesticated and installed at the heart of the middle-class home in the nineteenth century. Dog breeding and showing proliferated at that time, and dog ownership increased considerably. At the same time, the dog was increasingly policed out of public space, the stray becoming the unloved counterpart of the household pet. Howell shows how this redefinition of the dogs place illuminates our understanding of modernity and the city. He also explores the fascinating process whereby the dogs changing role was proposed, challenged, and confrontedand in the end conditionally accepted. With a supporting cast that includes Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Thomas Carlyle, and Charles Darwin, and subjects of inquiry ranging from vivisection and the policing of rabies to pet cemeteries, dog shelters, and the practice of walking the dog, At Home and Astray is a contribution not only to the history of animals but also to our understanding of the Victorian era and its legacies. See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 500g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 13 Apr 2015
  • Publisher: University of Virginia Press
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780813936864

About Philip Howell

Philip Howell Senior Lecturer in Geography at Cambridge University UK is the author of Geographies of Regulation: Policing Prostitution in Nineteenth-Century Britain and the Empire.

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