{"product_id":"animal-advocacy-and-englishwomen-1780-1900-moira-ferguson-9780472108749","title":"Animal Advocacy and Englishwomen, 1780-1900: Patriots, Nation, and Empire","description":"\u003ci\u003eAnimal Advocacy and Englishwomen, 1780-1900\u003c\/i\u003e focuses on women writers and their struggle to protect animals from abuse in the transition from preindustrial to Victorian society. Looking critically at the work of Sarah Trimmer, Susanna Watts, Elizabeth Heyrick, Anna Sewell, and Frances Power Cobb, Moira Ferguson explores the links between Britain's evolving self-definition and the debate over the humane treatment of animals. Ferguson contends that animal-advocacy writing during this period provided a means for women to register their moral outrage over national problems extending far beyond those of animal abuse, effectively allowing them to achieve a public voice as citizens. \u003cbr\u003eThe writers in question represent multiple genres, time frames, and political approaches. Taken together, their productive lives span more than a century. They are ideologically divided on animal protection, and their political identities range from conservative Anglican Tories to radical reformers. Through their plural discourses on animal advocacy, these women actively participated in an ongoing humanitarian struggle that forged a connection between Englishness and kindness to animals, intensifying as industry and empire advanced, and effectively linked gender with national identity and self-definition. Their concerns resonate in a global as well as a national context; cruelty to animals emerges as a metaphor for imperial predation. In this sense, the writings constitute a gendered response to an evolving colonial discourse about others. \u003cbr\u003eMoira Ferguson is James E. Ryan Professor of English and Women's Literature, University of Nebraska. Her books include \u003ci\u003eSubject to Others: Colonial Slavery, 1670-1834; Colonialism and Gender: Relations from Mary Wollstonecraft to Jamaica Kincaid; East Caribbean Connections\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eThe History of Mary Prince, A West Indian Slave, Related by Herself\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Moira Ferguson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0472108743\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780472108749\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Michigan Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/05\/1998\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 184\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.42h x 5.98w x 0.85d","brand":"Moira Ferguson","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44076053528831,"sku":"9780472108749","price":84.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_dd68f5e3-2e07-47d4-b1a1-6a30ff643bf6.jpg?v=1685462910","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/animal-advocacy-and-englishwomen-1780-1900-moira-ferguson-9780472108749","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}