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From The Horse's Mouth: Voices Of The Nonhuman In Classic Children's Literature, Kathleen A. Gekiere
From The Horse's Mouth: Voices Of The Nonhuman In Classic Children's Literature, Kathleen A. Gekiere
Environmental Studies Honors Theses
Children’s literature often features anthropomorphized talking animal characters with individual lives and voices. This thesis clarifies the types of animal voices heard in children’s literature, utilizing a tripartite spectrum of expressions of animal emotions and perspectives, moralizing speech, and world building or plot progressing speech. This framework facilitates the exploration of the animal-human relationships and events of communication which shine through human-filtered animal voices. Using this framework, this thesis analyzes Anna Sewell’s Black Beauty, Hugh Lofting’s The Story of Doctor Dolittle and The Voyage of Doctor Dolittle, and C. S. Lewis’s The Magician’s Nephew, The Lion, the …