Representing the Modern Animal in Culture

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction....Pages 1-19
Front Matter....Pages 21-21
The Noble Brute: Contradictions in Equine Ideology, East and West....Pages 23-40
Paying Tribute to the Dogs: Turkish Strays in Nineteenth-Century British Travel Writing....Pages 41-57
Old Maedhe, Dagda, and the Sidhe: Maud Gonne’s Menagerie....Pages 59-79
Pets in Memoir....Pages 81-99
Front Matter....Pages 101-101
Darwin’s Ants: Evolutionary Theory and the Anthropomorphic Fallacy....Pages 103-118
Cats, Apes, and Crabs: T. S. Eliot among the Animals....Pages 119-136
The Fable, the Moral, and the Animal: Reconsidering the Fable in Animal Studies with Marianne Moore’s Elephants....Pages 137-154
Untimely Metamorphoses: Darwin, Baudelaire, Woolf, and Animal Flânerie....Pages 155-173
Front Matter....Pages 175-175
Splicing Genes with Postmodern Teens: The Hunger Games and the Hybrid Imagination....Pages 177-190
On the Wings of a Butterfly: Bare Life and Bioart in Eduardo Kac, Marta de Menezes, and Margaret Atwood....Pages 191-203
Animal Gods in Extinction Stories: Power and Princess Mononoke....Pages 205-225
Postcolonial Critique in a Multispecies World....Pages 227-237
Back Matter....Pages 239-254