Hyena Trouble

No surprise that big-game hunting became a collective social ritual and point of national pride.2 Meanwhile back at home, a domestic culture of animals was developing: the establishment of the RSPCA and other humane societies, the breeding of high-class domestic pets, and the creation of a literatur...

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Published in:Studies in romanticism 2014-10, Vol.53 (3), p.369-397
Main Author: BEWELL, ALAN
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Animal mimicry
Animals
Bones
Colonial literature
Dogs
Emotional abuse
French Revolution
Gender
History
Humans
Hunting
Hyenas
Masculinity
Natural history
Nature
Poetry
Women
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Summary:No surprise that big-game hunting became a collective social ritual and point of national pride.2 Meanwhile back at home, a domestic culture of animals was developing: the establishment of the RSPCA and other humane societies, the breeding of high-class domestic pets, and the creation of a literature of domesticated speaking animals (Beatrix Potter and Kenneth Grahame). Fisi. the hyena, hermaphroditic self-eating devourer of the dead, trailer of calving cows, hamstringer, potential biter-off of your face at night while you slept, sad yowler, camp-follower, stinking, fowl, with jaws that crack the bones that the lion leaves, belly dragging, loping away on the brown plain, looking back, mongrel dog-smart in the face; wack from the little Mannlicher and then the horrid circle starting.
ISSN:0039-3762
2330-118X
2330-118X
DOI:10.1353/srm.2014.0004