The Palgrave Handbook of Animals and Literature

Front Matter ....Pages i-xxii
 Introduction: Towards an Animal-Centred Literary History  (Susan McHugh, Robert McKay, John Miller)....Pages 1-11
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 The Exception and the Norm: Dimensions of Anthropocentrism  (Tom Tyler)....Pages 15-36
 Metaphor, Metonymy, More-Than-Anthropocentric. The Animal That Therefore I Read (and Follow)  (Ann-Sofie Lönngren)....Pages 37-50
 Narratology Beyond the Human: Self-Narratives and Inter-Species Identities  (David Herman)....Pages 51-64
 An(im)alogical Thinking: Contemporary Black Literature and the Dreaded Comparison  (Diana Leong)....Pages 65-77
 We Are Not in This World Alone: On Drawing Close, Animal Stories, and a Multispecies Sense of Place  (Nandini Thiyagarajan)....Pages 79-94
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 A Community of Exiles: Whale and Human Domains in Old English Poetry  (Megan Cavell)....Pages 97-110
 An Ontological Turn for the Medieval Books of Beasts: Environmental Theory from Premodern to Postmodern  (Susan Crane)....Pages 111-126
 Chaucer, Lydgate, and the Half-Heard Nightingale  (Carolynn Van Dyke)....Pages 127-140
 Huntings of the Hare: The Medieval and Early Modern Poetry of Imperiled Animals  (Karl Steel)....Pages 141-152
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 Human, Animal, and Metamorphic Becomings  (Carla Freccero)....Pages 155-166
 Sheep, Beasts, and Knights: Fugitive Alterity in Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene Book VI, and The Shepheardes Calender  (Rachel Stenner)....Pages 167-179
 My Palfrey, Myself: Toward a Queer Phenomenology of the Horse-Human Bond in Henry V and Beyond  (Karen Raber)....Pages 181-194
 What Can Beast Fables Do in Literary Animal Studies? Ben Jonson’s Volpone and the Prehumanist Human  (Erica Fudge)....Pages 195-207
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 “Real” Animals and the Eighteenth-Century Literary Imagination  (Laura Brown)....Pages 211-224
 Mary Leapor’s Creatureliness in “An Essay on Woman” and Other Poems  (Anne Milne)....Pages 225-237
 Poetics of the Hunt: Re-reading Agency and Re-thinking Ecology in William Somerville’s The Chase  (Richard Nash)....Pages 239-250
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 Beyond Symbolism: The Rights and Biopolitics of Romantic Period Animals  (Ron Broglio)....Pages 253-264
 Bad Dog: The Dark Side of Misbehaving Animals  (Chase Pielak)....Pages 265-276
 Why Animals Matter in Jane Austen  (Barbara K. Seeber)....Pages 277-289
 John Keats and the Sound of Autumn: Reading Poetry in a Time of Extinction  (Michael Malay)....Pages 291-305
 Cooper’s Animal Offences: The Confusion of Species in Last of the Mohicans  (Onno Oerlemans)....Pages 307-317
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 Jane Eyre and Tess Durbeyfield at the Human/Animal Border  (Ivan Kreilkamp)....Pages 321-331
 Animals and Nonsense: Edward Lear’s Menagerie  (Ann C. Colley)....Pages 333-346
 Intimacy, Objectification, and Inter/Intra-Species Relations in Victorian Animal Autobiographies  (Monica Flegel)....Pages 347-359
 How Not to Eat: Vegetarian Polemics in Victorian India  (Parama Roy)....Pages 361-381
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 Modernist Animals and Bioaesthetics  (Carrie Rohman)....Pages 385-396
 Vivisection in Modernist Culture and Popular Fiction, 1890–1945  (Katherine Ebury)....Pages 397-409
 Virginia Woolf and Gertrude Stein: Two Modernist Women Writing as Dogs  (Marianne DeKoven)....Pages 411-422
 Kingship, Kinship and the King of Beasts in Early Southern African Novels  (Jade Munslow Ong)....Pages 423-435
 Animals Inside: Creatureliness in Dezső Kosztolányi’s Skylark and Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life  (Anat Pick)....Pages 437-456
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 Speculative Humanisms: Postwar Universalism and the Question of the Animal  (Seán McCorry)....Pages 459-472
 CanLit’s Ossiferous Fictions: Animal Bones and Fossils in Margaret Atwood’s Life Before Man and Carol Shields’s The Stone Diaries  (Sarah Bezan)....Pages 473-486
 Returning to the Animals’ Gaze: Reflective Readings of Lionesses Marah and Sekhmet  (Wendy Woodward)....Pages 487-497
 “Without the Right Words It’s Hard to Retain Clarity”: Speculative Fiction and Animal Narrative  (Sherryl Vint)....Pages 499-511
 Jesmyn Ward’s Dog Bite: Mississippi Love and Death Stories  (Bénédicte Boisseron)....Pages 513-523
 Shared and Hefted Lives in Twenty-First-Century Shepherds’ Calendars  (Catherine Parry)....Pages 525-538
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 The Biopolitics of Animal Love: Two Settler Stories  (Nicole Shukin)....Pages 541-555
 Companion Prosthetics: Avatars of Animality and Disability  (Michael Lundblad, Jan Grue)....Pages 557-574
 Denizen Habitations: Spaces of Solidarity in Recent South Asian Fiction  (Sundhya Walther)....Pages 575-588
 Plagues, Poisons, and Dead Rats: A Multispecies History  (Lucinda Cole)....Pages 589-603
 Last Chance to See: Extinction in Literary Animal Studies and the Environmental Humanities  (John Miller)....Pages 605-620
Back Matter ....Pages 621-636