‘A Decent Respect to the Opinions of Mankind’ by Jacques Pothier

“…With his rhetorical awareness, Thomas Jefferson has successfully turned himself into a character, and responses to the darker sides of this founding father have resembled that of readers expecting consistency in a fictional character. However, like a modernist character, Jefferson could be inconsistent—liberal and racist : these « contradictions » inaugurated a Southern strategy of response to criticism on race relations, which can be fruitfully compared with the discourse of Ike McCaslin in Faulkner’s Go Down, Moses.…”
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Alice’s Non-Anthropocentric Ethics: Lewis Carroll as a Defender of Animal Rights by Anna Kérchy

“…Lewis Carroll’s Victorian nonsense fairy-tale fantasies Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871) provide plenty of fictional reformulations of the Victorians’ ambiguous relationship with animals. …”
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Pagan Revenants in Arthur Machen’s Supernatural Tales of the Nineties by Sophie Mantrant

“…In his Geography of Victorian Gothic Fiction (1999), Robert Mighall presents ‘anachronistic conflict’ as the defining feature of the mode. …”
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Renaissance Man, Man of his Times: Norman Mailer’s "The White Negro" and Literary Manhood in 1950s America by Matthew Kriz

“…Cet essai a été, en grande partie, sorti de son contexte historique par la première génération de critiques de Mailer et c’est son importance par rapport aux œuvres de fiction ultérieures de Mailer qu’ils ont prise en considération. …”
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John Wideman’s Memoirs, or the Ghosts on the Racial Mountain by Claude Julien

“…L’idée que le racisme interdit tout rapport sain, non seulement entre des individus de races différentes, mais aussi entre les frères, et les générations, s’impose comme le fil conducteur des trois mémoires de l’auteur.  …”
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The Empire of Beasts Then and Now: Political Cartoons and New Trends in Victorian Animal Studies by Irina Kantarbaeva-Bill

“…Victorians were obsessed with animals and used them pervasively in fiction and press as proxies for human races. This article attempts to analyse the animal display as a political commentary in the visual images of Punch or The London Charivari Magazine in the aftermath of the 1857 Mutiny and the growing geopolitical tensions worldwide. …”
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