Talking Animals in British Children's Fiction, 1786–1914

Nineteenth-century scholars, children's literature specialists, and historians of science and childhood will engage with Tess Cosslett's examination of nineteenth-century debates about the human and animal in children's stories such as Black Beauty, Beautiful Joe, Wind in the Willows, and Peter Rabbit. Investigating these works within their nineteenth-century contexts, Cosslett takes on topics that still resonate, such as the relation of the human and the natural, masculine and feminine, and child and adult.