Table of Contents
Introduction: Little Beasts on Tight Leashes
Brenda Ayres and Sarah E. Maier
Chapter 1
Why Did the Cow Jump over the Moon? Animals (but Mostly Pussies) in Nursery Rhymes
Brenda Ayres
Chapter 2
Wanted Dead or Alive: Rabbits in Victorian Children’s Literature
Keridiana Chez
Chapter 3
"In friendly chat with bird or beast … mixing together things grave and gay": Desireful Animals and Humans in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
Anna Koustinoudi
Chapter 4
A Brotherhood of Wolves: Loyalty in Yiddish and Anglo-Jewish Folktales
Lindsay Katzir and Brandon Katzir
Chapter 5
Advocating for the Least of These: Empowering Children and Animals in The Band of Mercy Advocate
Alisa Clapp-Itnyre
Chapter 6
Bush Animals, Developmental Time, and Colonial Identity in Victorian Australian Children’s Fiction
Christie Harner
Chapter 7
The Serpent; or, the Real King of the Jungle
Stephen Basdeo
Chapter 8
Learning Masculinity: Education, Boyhood, and the Animal in Thomas Hughes’ Tom Brown’s School Days
Alicia Alves
Chapter 9
Unruly Females on the Farm: Farmed Animal Mothers and the Dismantling of the Species Hierarchy in 19th Century Literature for Children
Stacy Hoult-Saros
Chapter 10
The Child is Father of the Man: Lessons Animals Teach Children in George Eliot’s Writings
Constance Fulmer
Chapter 11
Neither Brutes nor Beasts: Animals, Children and Young Persons and/in the Brontës
Sarah E. Maier
Chapter 12
Animals, Children, and the Fantasies of the Circus
Susan Nance
Chapter 13
Imperial Pets: Monkey-Girls, Man-Cubs, and Dog-Faced Boys on Exhibition in Victorian Britain
Shannon Scott
