Representing the Modern Animal in Culture

1. Introduction
Jeanne Dubino

Part I. Identity: Lives with Domestic Animals in the Modern Era

2. The Noble Brute: Contradictions in Equine Ideology, East and West
Donna Landry

3. Paying Tribute to the Dogs: Turkish Strays in Nineteenth-Century British Travel Writing
Jeanne Dubino

4. Old Maedhe, Dagda, and the Sidhe: Maud Gonne’s Menagerie
Kathryn Kirkpatrick

5. Pets in Memoir
Kevin L. Ferguson

Part II. Anthropomorphism: Animals as Metaphor in the Age of Darwin

6. Darwin’s Ants: Evolutionary Theory and the Anthropomorphic Fallacy
Alexis Harley

7. Cats, Apes, and Crabs: T. S. Eliot among the Animals
Emily Essert

8. The Fable, the Moral, and the Animal: Reconsidering the Fable in Animal Studies with Marianne Moore’s Elephants
Joshua Schuster

9. Untimely Metamorphoses: Darwin, Baudelaire, Woolf, and Animal Flânerie
Caroline Pollentier

Part III. The Posthuman: Reconceiving Nonhuman Animals in the Contemporary World

10. Splicing Genes with Postmodern Teens: The Hunger Games and the Hybrid Imagination
Andrew Smyth

11. On the Wings of a Butterfly: Bare Life and Bioart in Eduardo Kac, Marta de Menezes, and Margaret Atwood
Ziba Rashidian

12. Animal Gods in Extinction Stories: Power and Princess Mononoke
Susan McHugh

13. Postcolonial Critique in a Multispecies World
Neel Ahuja

Nyckelord: Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Sociology, general, Literary History, History of Britain and Ireland