Representing the Modern Animal in Culture

Introduction; Jeanne Dubino PART I: IDENTITY: LIVES WITH DOMESTIC ANIMALS IN THE MODERN ERA 1. The Noble Brute: Contradictions in Equine Ideology, East and West; Donna Landry 2. Paying Tribute to the Dogs: Turkish Strays in Nineteenth-Century British Travel Texts; Jeanne Dubino 3. Old Maedhe, Dagda, and the Sidhe: Maud Gonne's Menagerie; Kathryn Kirkpatrick 4. Pets in Memoir; Kevin Ferguson PART II: ANTHROPOMORPHISM: ANIMALS AS METAPHOR IN THE AGE OF DARWIN 5. Darwin's Ants: Evolutionary Theory and Anthropomorphic Fallacy; Alexis Harley 6. Cats, Rats, Apes, and Crabs: T. S. Eliot among the Animals; Emily Essert 7. The Fable, the Moral, and the Animal: Reconsidering the Fable in Animal Studies with Marianne Moore's Elephants; Joshua Schuster 8. Untimely Metamorphoses: Darwin, Baudelaire, Woolf, and Animal Flânerie ; Caroline Pollentier PART III: THE POSTHUMAN: RECONCEIVING NONHUMAN ANIMALS IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD 9. Splicing Genes with Postmodern Teens: The Hunger Games and the Hybrid Imagination; Andrew Smyth 10. On the Wings of a Butterfly: Bare Life and Bioart in Eduardo Kac, Marta de Menezes, and Margaret Atwood; Ziba Rashidian 11. Being Out of Time: Animal Gods in Contemporary Extinction Fictions; Susan McHugh 12. Postcolonial Critique in a Multispecies World; Neel Ahuja