Animal Satire

Acknowledgements
Contents
List of Figures
A Satire by Way of a Preface
	Chapter 1: The Hall of the Sovereigns
Introduction
	Chapter 2: Animal Satire: An Introduction
		Works Cited
Part I: Drama and Poetry: Animal Satire in Classics, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies
	Chapter 3: Dogs in Court and Sheep in the Assembly: Animal Satire in Aristophanes
		Plot Summary
		Animal Imagery in Wasps
		The Dog Trial
		Sosias’ Dream
		Philocleon and Animals
		Conclusion
		Works Cited
	Chapter 4: The “Battle of the Frogs and Mice” (Batrachomyomachia) and Satire in the Ancient Greco-Roman Tradition
		Satura Quidem …
		Frogs and Mice
		Works Cited
	Chapter 5: Making an Ass of Yourself? The Pointed Comedy of the Mirror for Fools
		Context and Synopsis
		Key Elements of Animal Satire and Key Sources in The Mirror for Fools
		Key Satirical Targets of The Mirror for Fools
		Modern Resonances
		Conclusion
		Works Cited
			Manuscripts and Incunabula
	Chapter 6: What Can Beast Fables Do in Literary Animal Studies? Ben Jonson’s Volpone and the Prehumanist Human
		The Beast Fable
		The Paragon of Animals
		Old and New Continuums
		Works Cited
	Chapter 7: “That was a rare experiment of transfusing the blood of a sheep into a mad-man”: Animal Experiments and Satirical Knowledge in Thomas Shadwell’s The Virtuoso
		Works Cited
Satirical Interruption
	Chapter 8: A Slaves’ Revolt
Part II: Satirical Editorials and Fiction: Early Through High Modernist Studies
	Chapter 9: “A green Parrot for a good Speaker”: Writing with a Birds-Eye View in Eliza Haywood’s The Parrot
		The Avian Eidolon
		Allegories and Outsiders: Eighteenth-Century Bird Satire
		Reading with Parrots
		Figuring out The Parrot
		Becoming-Parrot
		Conclusion
		Works Cited
	Chapter 10: The Lacking Satirical Animals of Mary Shelley’s The Last Man
		Works Cited
	Chapter 11: Learning About Race and Religion with Bob and Felissa: Satire in Nineteenth-Century Children’s It-Narratives
		Works Cited
	Chapter 12: Nineteenth-Century American Anti-extinction Humour: “A Polar Whale’s Appeal” as Environmentalist Animal Satire
		Sincerity and Sentiment: Misinterpreting “A Polar Whale’s Appeal”
		Irony and Satire: A Reinterpretation of “A Polar Whale’s Appeal”
		Works Cited
	Chapter 13: Vivisections, Vaccinations, Revelations: Ecofeminist Satire and Biopolitical Dystopia in Frances Power Cobbe’s The Age of Science
		Works Cited
	Chapter 14: “Wolf within the Fold”: Satire and Animality in The Brutalitarian and The Beagler Boy
		Works Cited
	Chapter 15: Animals and Animality in Saki’s Satirical Short Stories
		Animals and Satirical Short Fiction
		Beastly Humans and Unruly Animals in Saki’s Short Fiction
		Conclusion
		Works Cited
	Chapter 16: Satire and Significant Otherness in Virginia Woolf’s Flush: A Biography
		Darwinian Dogs
		Woolf, Darwin, Eugenics
		From Pedigree to Race and Animality
		Racialised Dogs
		The Bestialised, Animalised, Working Classes
		Works Cited
Satirical Interruption
	Chapter 17: How to Slaughter a Human
Part III: Animal Satire in Contemporary Literature, Film and Media Studies
	Chapter 18: “Thanks a lot, big brain”: Satirical Misanthropy in Kurt Vonnegut’s Galápagos
		Queer Misanthropy
		Posthuman Satire
		Lateral Comedy
		Works Cited
	Chapter 19: “Dogs are supposed to be able to instinctively live with purpose”: Brian, Family Guy, and the Inevitable Anthropocentrism of Satire
		Works Cited
	Chapter 20: The Paradox of the Charismatic Pig in The Simpsons Movie and Okja
		The Simpsons and the Spider Pig: Or, with Great Piggery Comes Great Responsibility
		Okja Come Home: Or, a Girl and her Pig Escape from New York
		Pigs in the Parlour or a Pig in a Poke? The Industrial/Cinematic Pig
		Works Cited
	Chapter 21: [Sic] Beasts
		The History of Satire and Its Implication for the Texts in Question
		Works Cited
	Chapter 22: The Satirical Rhetorics of [Re]Tweeting Birds
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		@Twitter: Redux
		Works Cited
A Satire by Way of Conclusion
	Chapter 23: The Need for Giant Ape Protection: A Petition to the UNESCO World Heritage Committee
A Grab-bag of Animal Satires
	Chapter 24: A Grab-bag of Animal Satires
		Ancient and Pre-modern Satires
			Sixteenth Century
			Seventeenth Century
			Eighteenth Century
			Nineteenth Century
			Twentieth Century
			Twenty-First Century
Notes on Contributors
Index