Reading Literary Animals
Medieval to Modern

Table of Contents

Contents

Introduction

Karen L. Edwards, Derek Ryan, Jane Spencer
　
Part I Testing Metaphor
1. Entities in the World: Intertextuality in Medieval Bestiaries and Fables
Carolynn Van Dyke

2. Una’s ‘Milkewhite Lambe’
Karen L. Edwards

3. Behn’s Beasts: Aesop’s Fables and Surinam’s Wildlife in Oroonoko
Jane Spencer

Part II Plotting Agency
4. Shakespeare’s Animal Parts
Philip Armstrong

5. Exit Pursuing a Human: Performing Animals on the Early Modern Stage
Andy Kesson 　

6. Collaborative Agency: Animals in Hardy’s Rural Novels
Virginia Richter

Part III Inscribing Voice
7. Counting Animals: Nonhuman Voices in Lear and Carroll
Kaori Nagai

8. ‘What am I?’: Locating the Indeterminate Voices of Ted Hughes’s Animal Poems
Carrie Smith

9. "Thou, Spotted Eros": Love Poetry, Taxonomy, and the Erotics of Adamic Naming
Matthew Margini

Part IV Exploiting Bodies
10. The Hunting of the Hare: Female Virtue and Companionate Marriage in Henry Fielding’s Joseph Andrews and Tom Jones
Adela Ramos

11. "Filth and Fat and Blood and Foam": Animal Capital, Commodified Meat, and the "Human" in Great Expectations
Jennifer McDonell

12. Fiction, Fashion, and the Victorian Fur Seal Hunt
John Miller

Part V Loving Dogs
13. Animal Intimacies: Cross-Species Affect and the Lapdog Lyric
Laura Brown

14. Anthropomorphism, Personification and Humanization in William Wordsworth’s Dog Poems
James P. Carson
　

15. "Was it Flush, or was it Pan?": Virginia Woolf, Ethel Smyth, and Canine Biography
Derek Ryan