Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The End of the Animal – Literary and Cultural Animalities
- 1 Each Time Unique: The Poetics of Extinction
- 2 Posthuman New York: Ground Zero of the Anthropocene
- 3 J. G. Ballard's Dark Ecologies: Unsettling Nature, Animals, and Literary Tropes
- 4 Staging Humanimality: Patricia Piccinini and a Genealogy of Species Intermingling
- 5 “Sparks Would Fly”: Electricity and the Spectacle of Animality
- 6 The Nature of Birds, Women, and Cancer: Terry Tempest Williams's Refuge and When Women Were Birds
- 7 Animality, Biopolitics, and Umwelt in Amitav Ghosh's The Hungry Tide
- 8 Looking the Beast in the Eye: Re-animating Meat in Nordic and British Food Culture
- 9 Love Triangle with Dog: Whym Chow, the “Michael Fields,” and the Poetic Potential of Human-Animal Bonds
- 10 Bestial Humans and Sexual Animals: Zoophilia in Law and Literature
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
Acknowledgments
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 December 2017
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The End of the Animal – Literary and Cultural Animalities
- 1 Each Time Unique: The Poetics of Extinction
- 2 Posthuman New York: Ground Zero of the Anthropocene
- 3 J. G. Ballard's Dark Ecologies: Unsettling Nature, Animals, and Literary Tropes
- 4 Staging Humanimality: Patricia Piccinini and a Genealogy of Species Intermingling
- 5 “Sparks Would Fly”: Electricity and the Spectacle of Animality
- 6 The Nature of Birds, Women, and Cancer: Terry Tempest Williams's Refuge and When Women Were Birds
- 7 Animality, Biopolitics, and Umwelt in Amitav Ghosh's The Hungry Tide
- 8 Looking the Beast in the Eye: Re-animating Meat in Nordic and British Food Culture
- 9 Love Triangle with Dog: Whym Chow, the “Michael Fields,” and the Poetic Potential of Human-Animal Bonds
- 10 Bestial Humans and Sexual Animals: Zoophilia in Law and Literature
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
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- AnimalitiesLiterary and Cultural Studies Beyond the Human, pp. vii - viiiPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2017