7/6/2023 0 Comments Black beauty sewell![]() This article sheds new light on Black Beauty’s genre through its contextual reading of moralistic, animal-centric children’s literature, and didactic tracts on horse management. While Black Beauty is typically considered a children’s book, the novel in fact had a considerable adult audience, especially among working-class men. This allows the article to interrogate critical commonplaces about the novel’s genre. It uses a ‘surface reading’ methodology, focusing on the novel’s contemporary generic context and on how the book was received and marketed. ![]() ![]() This article employs Margaret Cohen’s notion of the ‘generic horizon’ to explore the production and reception of Anna Sewell’s 1877 novel Black Beauty. ![]()
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