![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It contends that the novel is a sophisticated exploration of the suffering and indignities faced by both horses and their working-class handlers in Victorian England. 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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