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Representing Animal Minds in Early Animal Autobiography: Charlotte Tucker's the Rambles of a Rat and Nineteenth-Century Natural History (2015)

Victorian Literature and Culture
Volume: 43
Issue: 4
Pages: 725-744
Publication date: 2015
Language: English

URI: http://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/victorian-literature-and-culture/article/div-classtitlerepresenting-animal-minds-in-early-animal-autobiography-charlotte-tuckerandaposs-span-classitalicthe-rambles-of-a-ratspan-and-nineteenth-century-natural-historydiv/4F7FCB382ECE0B4E23C5C170B0FD4DC8

DOI: 10.1017/S1060150315000236

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Animal autobiography – a first-person fictional narrative in which an animal tells its own story – emerged in the late eighteenth century as the first attempt to represent animal minds in extended narrative form. Authors of this genre were anxious to create accurate, believable animal characters, even as they afforded them human language and a habit of critical commentary. To do this, they wrote in sync with scientific understandings of animals as set out in books of natural history. A few authors are explicit about their debt to natural history, and their comments point to a broad but intended compatibility between the ideas of animal minds in animal autobiography and those in the popularized scientific discourse of the day.

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Review Ben De Bruyn (2017) Review of "Representing Animal Minds in Early Animal Autobiography: Charlotte Tucker's the Rambles of a Rat and Nineteenth-Century Natural History". Journal of Literature and Science (pp. 83-84). unapi

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