Victorian fiction and the cult of the horse /
Dorré, Gina M.,1963-
Aldershot : Ashgate,
c2006.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-174) and index.
All the queen's horses : Victorian culture and the "definition of a horse" -- Handling the "iron horse" : Dickens, travel, and the derailing of Victorian masculinity -- Horsebreaking and homemaking : horsey heroines and destabilized domesticity in the sensation fiction of Mary Elizabeth Braddon -- Horses and corsets : Black Beauty, dress reform, and the fashioning of the Victorian woman -- Reading and riding : late-century aesthetics and the cultural economy of the turf in George Moore's Esther Waters -- Urban ironies and the modern mind : horses after Victoria.
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth), 1835-1915
Sewell, Anna, 1820-1878
Moore, George, 1852-1933
English fiction
Horses in literature.
Literature and society