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Explore how horses shaped Victorian literature and society in this scholarly examination by Gina M. Dorre. The horse was fundamental to nineteenth-century life, and its representations across diverse texts reveal complex anxieties about industrialism, technology, gender, sexuality, class conflict, and imperial expansion. This Routledge publication traces the rhetorical and emblematic uses of horses through Victorian fiction, demonstrating how these animals functioned as cultural symbols negotiating the era's social transformations. Ideal for students and scholars of literary theory, nineteenth-century literature, and cultural history seeking to understand how writers encoded anxieties about progress and modernity through equine imagery and symbolism.

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Examines representational uses of horses across diverse nineteenth-century texts and literary works.

Analyses how horse imagery reveals Victorian anxieties about industrialism, technology, and social change.

Explores connections between equine representations and constructions of gender, sexuality, and class conflict.

Investigates imperial expansion and national progress through the lens of Victorian fiction and the horse cult.

Published by Routledge, a leading academic press specialising in literary theory and cultural studies.

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Brand: Routledge
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0754655156
Category: Books > Subjects > Poetry, Drama & Criticism > History & Criticism > Literary Theory & Movements
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 07 November 2006
Listed Since: 20 December 2006

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