Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Chapter One. Home, Animal, Novel 1
4. Chapter Two. Petted Things: Cruelty and Sympathy in the Brontës 37
5. Chapter Three. Dying like a Dog in Dickens 69
6. Chapter Four. Middlemarch’s Brute Life 89
7. Chapter Five. Using and Pitying Animals in Thomas Hardy 109
8. Chapter Six. Tracking Animal Agency in Conan Doyle and Hardy 133
9. Chapter Seven. “Infinite Compassion”: Nonhuman Life in Schreiner’s The Story of an African Farm 148
10. Acknowledgments 181
11. Notes 185
12. Works Cited 203
13. Index 215