How Long to Read Curiosity Killed the Cat

How Long Does it Take to Read Curiosity Killed the Cat?

It takes the average reader 11 hours and 50 minutes to read Curiosity Killed the Cat by Sarah Amato

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

This dissertation examines the place of animals in nineteenth-century British consumer culture, focusing on pet-keeping practices, zoological exhibitions, popular taxidermy and animals in literature. I show how Victorians interacted with animals in direct and tactile ways, often transforming them into objects of commerce. In the Victorian period, every aspect of the animal, including its capacity to breed, was offered for sale. As consumer goods, animals (alive or dead) could be bartered and exchanged, exhibited and represented. Pet animals were animate commodities and integrated into the routines of daily life; exotic beasts were taken from the wild and encountered across the bars of cages; dead animals were anatomized, sold, used as furniture and as scientific specimens; and creatures described in fiction were visualized and dramatized in abstract ways. These interactions with animals were important articulations of how Victorians understood their society and the forces which shaped it. The animals that were invited into the confines of Victorian society were assigned meanings redolent of major concerns regarding the maintenance of proper gender, social and racial hierarchies, as well as attitudes towards science and death. Relations with animals also exposed the seamy side of Victorian culture and were rife with anxieties. Animals, being feral and alive, rarely conformed to expectations, and even pet-keeping involved discipline and sometimes abuse. Struggles to control animals could undermine their symbolic potential and reveal the cracks and fissures of the Victorian worldview. In exploring Victorian relations with animals, this dissertation connects the histories of consumerism, sentiment, material culture and popular science, and contributes to scholarship on the social and cultural history of nineteenth-century Britain. Animals in nineteenth-century Britain inspired the imagination and bore directly on how Victorians understood their society and the times in which they lived.

How long is Curiosity Killed the Cat?

Curiosity Killed the Cat by Sarah Amato is 688 pages long, and a total of 177,504 words.

This makes it 232% the length of the average book. It also has 217% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Curiosity Killed the Cat Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 16 hours and 9 minutes to read Curiosity Killed the Cat aloud.

What Reading Level is Curiosity Killed the Cat?

Curiosity Killed the Cat is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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