Introduction. 1. The Inhuman Fictions of Swift and Defoe 2. Gulliver, Frankenstein, Moreau 3. Rendering the Whale 4. Modernism and the Hunt for Redemption 5. Animal Refugees in the Ruins of Modernity
Biography
Philip Armstrong teaches at the University of Canterbury, Aotearoa, where he is Co-Director of the New Zealand Centre for Human-Animal Studies.
"Remarkable depth and breadth in its engagement with critical discussions of animals in modern fiction".
- Susan McHugh in Society & Animals 17.4 (2009): 363-7
"An essential book for anyone involved in Animal Studies and everyone concerned with animals in literature".
- Marion Copeland in Humanimalia 1.1 (September 2009)
"A magisterial reading of Moby-Dick appears in What Animals Mean in the Fiction of Modernity alongside compelling studies of Gulliver's Travels, Robinson Crusoe, Frankenstein, a host of twentieth-century novels, and critical analyses of Wells and Lawrence ...".
- Robert McKay in The Minnesota Review issue 73-4 (2010)
