Minor Creatures
Persons, Animals, and the Victorian Novel
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2. Petted Things: Cruelty and Sympathy in the Brontës
3. Dying like a Dog in Dickens
4. Middlemarch’s Brute Life
5. Using and Pitying Animals in Thomas Hardy
6. Tracking Animal Agency in Conan Doyle and Hardy
7. “Infinite Compassion”: Nonhuman Life in Schreiner’s The Story of an African Farm
Acknowledgments
Notes
Works Cited
Index
Biological Sciences: Behavioral Biology
Cognitive Science: Human and Animal Cognition
Literature and Literary Criticism: British and Irish Literature | General Criticism and Critical Theory
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