How Long to Read Pets and Domesticity in Victorian Literature and Culture

How Long Does it Take to Read Pets and Domesticity in Victorian Literature and Culture?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 41 minutes to read Pets and Domesticity in Victorian Literature and Culture by Monica Flegel

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

Description

Addressing the significance of the pet in the Victorian period, this book examines the role played by the domestic pet in delineating relations for each member of the "natural" family home. Flegel explores the pet in relation to the couple at the head of the house, to the children who make up the family’s dependents, and to the common familial "outcasts" who populate Victorian literature and culture: the orphan, the spinster, the bachelor, and the same-sex couple. Drawing upon both animal studies and queer theory, this study stresses the importance of the domestic pet in elucidating normative sexuality and (re)productivity within the familial home, and reveals how the family pet operates as a means of identifying aberrant, failed, or perverse familial and gender performances. The family pet, that is, was an important signifier in Victorian familial ideology of the individual family unit’s ability to support or threaten the health and morality of the nation in the Victorian period. Texts by authors such as Clara Balfour, Juliana Horatia Ewing, E. Burrows, Bessie Rayner Parkes, Anne Brontë, George Eliot, Frederick Marryat, and Charles Dickens speak to the centrality of the domestic pet to negotiations of gender, power, and sexuality within the home that both reify and challenge the imaginary structure known as the natural family in the Victorian period. This book highlights the possibilities for a familial elsewhere outside of normative and restrictive models of heterosexuality, reproduction, and the natural family, and will be of interest to those studying Victorian literature and culture, animal studies, queer studies, and beyond.

How long is Pets and Domesticity in Victorian Literature and Culture?

Pets and Domesticity in Victorian Literature and Culture by Monica Flegel is 216 pages long, and a total of 55,296 words.

This makes it 73% the length of the average book. It also has 68% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Pets and Domesticity in Victorian Literature and Culture Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 2 minutes to read Pets and Domesticity in Victorian Literature and Culture aloud.

What Reading Level is Pets and Domesticity in Victorian Literature and Culture?

Pets and Domesticity in Victorian Literature and Culture 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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