Figuring Animals

Introduction PART 1: THE SOCIAL ANIMAL Lost Dog: The Silent Authority of the Animal Face; H.P.Steeves Ursus Americanus: The Idea of a Bear; M.Dylan Fox Digging and Leveling in Adam's Garden: Women and the International Cat Fancy; S.E.Jones PART 2: THE OBSERVED AND THE OBSERVER Animal Testimony in Renaissance Art: Mary's Annunciation and Paul's Conversion; W.J.Scheik Strange Yet 'Familiar': Cats and Birds in Remedios Varo's Artistic Universe; N.Vosburg Who's Looking: The Animal Gaze in the Fiction of Brigitte Kronauer and Clarice Lispector; J.Ittner PART 3: ART AND SCIENCE Burning Out the Animal: The Failure of Enlightenment Purification in H.G. Wells's The Island of Doctor Moreau ; C.Rohman Ouida's Rhetoric of Empathy: A Case Study in Victorian Anti-Vivisection Narrative; M.S.Pollock PART 4: DIFFERENCE AND DESIRE The Black Stallion in Print and Film; L.Addison 'Who Are the Bander-log?': The Child and the Animal in Rudyard Kipling's Mowgli Stories and Ursula LeGuin's 'Buffalo Gals Won't You Come Out Tonight?' ; C.Powici To the Other: The Animal and Desire in Michael Field's Whymchow: Flame of Love ; D. Banash 'Identification With the Animals': Language, Subjectivity, and the Animal-Politics of Atwood's Surfacing ; R.McKay PART 5: THEORIES OF THE OTHER Sensory Experience as Consciousness in Literary Representations of Animal Minds; J.A.Smith Human-Animal Affiliation in Modern Popular Film; T.Gadd Who May Speak for the Animals?: Deep Ecology in Linda Hogan's Power and A.A. Carr's Eye Killers ; C.Rainwater Contributors Acknowledgments