Reading literary animals : Medieval to modern / edited by Jane Spencer, Derek Ryan and Karen Edwards.

Testing metaphor. Entities in the world: intertextuality in medieval bestiaries and fables / Carolynn Van Dyke -- Una's "Milkewhite lambe" / Karen Edwards -- Behn's beasts: Aesop's fables and Surinam's wildlife in Oroonoko / Jane Spencer -- Plotting agency. Shakespeare's animal parts / Philip Armstrong -- Exit pursuing a human: performing animals on the early modern stage / Andy Kesson -- Collaborative agency: animals in Hardy's rural novels / Virginia Richter -- Inscribing voice. Counting animals: nonhuman voices in Lear and Carroll / Kaori Nagai -- "What am I?": locating the indeterminate voices of Ted Hughes's animal poems / Carrie Smith -- "Thou, spotted Eros": love poetry, taxonomy, and the erotics of Adamic naming / Matthew Margini -- Exploiting bodies. The hunting of the hare: female virtue and companionate marriage in Henry Fielding's Joseph Andrews and Tom Jones / Adela Ramos -- "Filth and fat and blood and foam": animal capital, commodified meat, and the "human" in Great Expectations / Jennifer McDonell -- Fiction, fashion, and the Victorian fur seal hunt / John Miller -- Loving dogs. Animal intimacies: cross-species affect and the lapdog lyric / Laura Brown -- Anthropomorphism, personification and humanization in William Wordsworth's dog poems / James P. Carson -- "Was it flush, or was it Pan?": Virginia Woolf, Ethel Smyth, and canine biography / Derek Ryan.

"Reading Literary Animals takes a broad chronological sweep, from medieval times to present day, to explore the literary status and representation of animals in literature. Editors Jane Spencer, Derek Ryan and Karen Edwards have assembled some of the field's leading scholars to demonstrate how reading animals in literature provokes new ways of thinking. Reading Literary Animals breaks down the old silos and gives answers to some of the most fundamental questions being asked in classrooms today surrounding the presence and absence of animals in canonical works since the Medieval period, including contributions on the works of Shakespeare, William Wordsworth and Ted Hughes"-- Provided by publisher.