The Horse's Mouth: equine-thinking with Anna Sewell, John Davidson, and Mona Caird

This article compares readings of horse-drawn work in the work of Mona Caird, John Davison and Anna Sewell, to argue that equine labour in these writings is used as a way of claiming access not only to animal feeling but equine modes of sensing the modern world. This paper builds on extant criticism on horse discourse in the climate of animal welfare and vivisection debates in the late nineteenth century.