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Equines in Eighteenth-Century Thought - Monica Mattfeld

Equines in Eighteenth-Century Thought

Intersectional Discriminations and the Imperfect Horse

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Buch | Hardcover
XVI, 440 Seiten
2026
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-031-86625-8 (ISBN)
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This book examines discriminations against horses in the literature and culture of the long eighteenth century alongside changing animal welfare and anticruelty activism. In doing so, it challenges period conceptions of what horses should look and behave like alongside systemic prejudice and normalized violence towards those who did not conform. It likewise follows literary discourses that sought to improve the lives and perceptions of horses with disabilities or those considered unideal in some way during a period of exploitative early capitalism. 

Monica Mattfeld is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Northern British Columbia, and she specializes in animal studies, disability studies, and the literature and history of eighteenth-century Britain. She has published on the interplay between animal and human disability, early modern horsemanship practices, theatrical animals, the early circus, and performances of gender. Mattfeld is the author of multiple animal-studies publications, including Becoming Centaur: Eighteenth-Century Masculinity and English Horsemanship.

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Approaches: Methods, Ethics, and Theories.- Chapter 3. Love, Pain, and Fear.- Chapter 4. The Perfectly Ideal and Perfectibility.- Chapter 5. Jades and Jadeism.- Chapter 6. Blood and the Natural History of the Horse.- Chapter 7. The Great Chain of Being, Cruelty, and Questions of Perfection.- Chapter 8. Economies of Death.- Chapter 9. Old Horses.- Chapter 10. Epilogue.- Bibliography.- Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 7.2.2026
Reihe/Serie Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature
Zusatzinfo XVI, 440 p. 23 illus., 5 illus. in color.
Verlagsort Cham
Sprache englisch
Maße 148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
Schlagworte Animal ethics • animal rights • Animal Studies • Horses • Social Class • William Hogarth
ISBN-10 3-031-86625-8 / 3031866258
ISBN-13 978-3-031-86625-8 / 9783031866258
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