Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. 1. The Significant Voice: Address and the Animal Sign 19
5. 2. Creaturely Origins: Enlightenment Naturalism and the Animal Voice 42
6. 3. The Addressive Animal: The Augustans and “Tyrant Custom” 80
7. 4. Creaturely Advocacy: Poetic Vocation in the Age of Sensibility 124
8. 5. Sensibilities into Statutes: Animal Rights and the Afterlife of Sensibility 164
9. Afterword: The Law and the Factory 202
10. Acknowledgments 207
11. Notes 209
12. Index 259