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T1 Dog Autobiographies and English Canine Melodrama: The Life of Carlo, the Famous Dog of the Drury-Lane Theatre (1806)
T2 Autobiografías de perros y melodramas ingleses caninos: The Life of Carlo, the Famous Dog of the Drury-Lane Theatre (1806)
A1 Ramos-Gay, Ignacio
K1 Elizabeth Fenwick
K1 Frederick Reynolds
K1 Melodrama
K1 It-Novels
K1 Performing Animals
K1 Human-Animal Studies
AB This article aims to examine Elizabeth Fenwick’s narrative, The Life of Carlo, or the FamousDog of Drury-Lane Theatre (1806), through the lens of the melodramatic conventions thatinformed Frederick Reynolds’s play, The Caravan; or the Driver and His Dog (1803), uponwhich the story is based. Focusing on the centrality of the dog in both works, the studyfirst explores the key elements of classical melodrama evident in the play and the novel. Itthen investigates how Fenwick’s narrative engages with nineteenth-century discourses onthe relationship between childhood and non-human animals. Finally, the analysis situatesFenwick’s work within the framework of classical melodrama’s ideal of citizenship, particu-larly as it relates to childhood and the domestication of animals.
PB Servicio de Publicaciones, Universidad de La Laguna
SN e-2530-8335
YR 2025
FD 2025
LK http://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/41799
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DS Repositorio institucional de la Universidad de La Laguna
RD 12-nov-2025