'This is a reference book indispensable to any self-respecting academic library, but it is also a publication that sits well in the personal collection of any student or lay person interested in the discipline.' Janette Leaf, The British Society for Literature and Science
Part I. Origins: 1. Aristotle's zoology in the medieval world Pieter Beullens; 2. Howling wolves and other beasts: animals and monstrosity in the Middle Ages Luuk Houwen; 3. Medieval bloodsport William Marvin; 4. Animals in late-medieval hagiography and romance David Salter; 5. Lions, mice, and learning from animals in Henryson's Fables Gillian Rudd; Part II. Development: 6. Animals, the devil, and the sacred in early modern English culture Molly Hand; 7. Shakespeare's animal theater Bruce Boehrer; 8. Classify and display: human and animal species, 1600–1815 Matthew Senior; 9. Swift among the locusts: vermin, infestation, and natural philosophy in the eighteenth century Lucinda Cole; 10. Animal subjectivities: gendered literary representation of animal minds in Anna Sewell's Black Beauty Deborah Denenholz Morse; 11. Friedrich Nietzsche on human nature: between philosophical anthropology and animal studies Vanessa Lemm; Part III. Contemporary Perspectives: 12. Opening up a dossier: animals, animalities, and living together with Roland Barthes Michael Lundblad; 13. Animal unfamiliars: a bestiary of time-travel cinema Alanna Thain; 14. Theorizing animals: Heidegger, Derrida, Agamben Matthew Calarco; 15. Becoming animal in the literary field Brian Massumi; 16. Animation and animism Thomas Lamarre; 17. Becoming mammoth: the domestic animal, its synthetic dreams and the pursuit of multispecies f(r)ictions David Jaclin; 18. Bush/animals Peter Kulchyski.