THE ORIGIN AND FORMATION OF BRITISH LITERARY ANIMALS

Abstract

This article introduces the study of animals and human–animal relations relations in literature through an examination of the rich and varied representations of animals and animality in the literary of British, in novels and in short stories. Animals in children`s literature may be wholly animalistic; they may act as symbols, they may traipse around in human clothes and perform human actions or they may also represent racial and other differences. Similarly, child characters may be so feral they act as animals or desire to be one.