1 Introduction
Woolf and Bergson’s Philosophy
Woolf and the Life Sciences
The Multidisciplinary Menagerie
2 Animal Presences in the Voyage Out
Instinct, Intelligence and Morality
Animal Perspectives and Languages
Beastly Humanity
Animal Intrusions
Animals and Their Advocates
3 Inter-Species Sympathy in Night and Day
Rooks and Ralph Denham’s Characterisation
Nonhuman Referents
The Zoo as Setting
Leonard Woolf as Ralph Denham
Bergsonian Love
4 War, Instinct and Suggestibility: The Humanimal in Mrs Dalloway
The Brute: T. H. Huxley’s Evolution and Ethics (1893)
Suggestibility: Instincts of the Herd in Peace and War (1916)
Monster: Sin and the Secret Self
Biomechanical Monsters and a Hybrid Future
Animals, Racism and Humaness
5 Flush, Freedom, and Animal Space-Time
Evolution and Freedom: Mary Butts, Henri Bergson, and Julian Huxley
Viginia Woolf’s Flush: A Biography (1933)
‘The Dog as a Simple Man’: Wells, Huxley, and Morgan
Conwy Lloyd Morgan’s ‘Blackie’
Animal Space Time: Mary Butts, Henri Bergson and John Buchan
6 Concluding Remarks
Literature and Science
Animal Welfare
Popular Science
Biography
Candice Kent is an independent scholar with a PhD in English from the University of Cambridge.
