1 ANIMALS IN ABOLITION

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. INTRODUCTION 1
4. PART ONE: The Pervasion of Animal Figures
5. 1 ANIMALS IN ABOLITION 19
6. 2 IMPERIAL ANIMALS AND ABORIGINAL P EOPLE 38
7. 3 THE POLITICS OF THE PIG FROM BURkE TO BECkETT 53
8. PART TWO: The Eccentricity of Animal Figures
9. 4 FAMILIARITY AND FLIGHTS OF IMAGINATION 73
10. 5 THE POODLE’S PERSPECTIVE IN E.T.A. HOFFMANN’S LEBENSANSICHTEN DES KATERS MURR 91
11. 6 WEIRD CREATURES 112
12. PART THREE: The Exhibition of Human-Animal Entanglements
13. 7 THE MONkEY ARTIST AND HIS DONkEY PUBLIC 133
14. 8 HORSE PAINTINGS 161
15. 9 THE BEASTS OF ROMANTIC MELODRAMA 181
16. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 201
17. BIBLIOGRAPHY 203
18. NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 221
19. INDEX 223