Companions, Servants, or Slaves?: Considering Animals in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Tague, Ingrid H.

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“…Similarly, while some research has explored the keeping of certain types or breeds of animal according to owners' age or gender (Tague, 2015), children's relationships and engagement with animals has been little explored in historical scholarship. Research that does, has tended to focus on animals' representations in popular moralising literature produced in the eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries intended primarily for middle-and upperclass children (Cosslett, 2001(Cosslett, , 2006Feuerstein, 2015;Flegel, 2012;Ritvo, 1985;Shell, 1986;Tague, 2010Tague, , 2015. However, the growing ubiquity of pets in family life and the expanding juvenile periodical press in the second half of the nineteenth century, meant that domestic pets -real and fictive -increasingly touched the lives of children across all social classes by the close of the century.…”

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‘The many lessons which the care of some gentle, loveable animal would give’: animals, pets, and emotions in children’s welfare institutions, 1870–1920

Soares

2021

The History of the Family

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This article explores the significance of animals and pets in the domestic and 'familial' life of the two largest children's residential welfare institutions operating in the nineteenth and earlytwentieth centuries. The article argues that children's institutions employed animals as pedagogical tools to shape children's emotions and behaviours and to construct idealised notions about family life and childhood. Using institutional periodicals the essay examines how literary and visual respresnetations of animals sought to inculcate values of kindness, sympathy, compassion and benevolence in child readers, while also imparting important lessons about animal care, childcare, parenthood, responsibility, and humanitarianism. The article proceeds to analyse how animals featured in the everyday lives of institutionalised children, and examines how pet-keeping helped to enhance a sense of home and family life for poor children, and the meanings that children and young people invested in these relationships. The essay broadens understandings of working class engagement with animals, and the meanings and importance of a range of pets in the lives of poor children in alternative family settings. In doing so, the essay offers a new way of exploring family life in alternative and npn-traditional household settings, and provides insight into the social, emotional and material experiences of childhood in institutional settings.

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‘The many lessons which the care of some gentle, loveable animal would give’: animals, pets, and emotions in children’s welfare institutions, 1870–1920

Soares

2021

The History of the Family

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“…While non-human 'others', dogs were companions and objects of affection. 78 As previously discussed, the elite promoted refined emotional sensibility and the capacity to be moved by others as an indicator of their social status. Scholars of animal history have demonstrated that dogs formed a part of this, as they became sites of meditation to think and emote.…”

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Dogs, Servants and Masculinities: Writing about Danger on the Grand Tour

Goldsmith¹

2015

J Eighteenth Century Stud

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The eighteenth‐century Grand Tour has typically been conceptualised as dominated by Classical aesthetics and Frenchified politeness. This article reconsiders the Grand Tour's status by examining how experiences of danger were constructed by aristocratic and gentry Grand Tourists and their families, friends and tutors. Based on their manuscript journals and letters and related publications, it identifies several narrative strategies, including the utilisation of servants and dogs as emotional others and extensions of the self, and argues that danger formed a crucial aspect of the Grand Tour, through which elite masculine virtues could be formed and adult masculine identities constructed.

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“…In more metaphorical terms too, comparisons been animals and enslaved humans were a common means of reflecting on relations of power and domination in the eighteenth century. 12 There is now a substantial and growing body of work on horses and other animals in history. Some of the most recent and challenging work in this field, undertaken under the sign of the 'animal turn', contests the anthropocentrism of most historical scholarship.…”

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Master–Horse–Slave: Mobility, Race and Power in the British West Indies, c.1780–1838

Lambert¹

2015

Slavery & Abolition

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Companions, Servants, or Slaves?: Considering Animals in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Cited by 8 publications

References 25 publications

‘The many lessons which the care of some gentle, loveable animal would give’: animals, pets, and emotions in children’s welfare institutions, 1870–1920

‘The many lessons which the care of some gentle, loveable animal would give’: animals, pets, and emotions in children’s welfare institutions, 1870–1920

Dogs, Servants and Masculinities: Writing about Danger on the Grand Tour

Master–Horse–Slave: Mobility, Race and Power in the British West Indies, c.1780–1838

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