Chapter 1 Introduction: Literature beyond the Human

Chapter 2 Kafka’s Animal Stories: Modernist Form and Interspecies Narrative

Chapter 3 The Tortured Animals of Modernity: Animal Studies and Italian Literature

Chapter 5 “Becoming Men” and Animal Sacrifice: Contemporary Literary Examples

Chapter 6 A Tail for Two Theorists: The Problem of the Female Monster in Katherine Dunn’s Geek Love

Chapter 7 Friendship; Or, Representing More-Than-Human Subjectivities and Spaces in J. R. Ackerley’s My Dog Tulip

Chapter 8 “A Little Wildness”: Negotiating Relationships between Human and Nonhuman in Historical Romance

Chapter 9 Animal Worlds and Anthropological Machines in Yann Martel’s Millennial Novel Life of Pi

Chapter 10 “Like Words Printed on Skin”: Desire, Animal Masks, and Multispecies Relationships in Monique Truong’s The Book of Salt

Chapter 11 Horsescapes: Space, Nation, and Human-Horse Relations in Jane Smiley’s Horse Heaven

Chapter 12 Animal Others, Other People: Exploring Cetacean Personhood in Zakes Mda’s The Whale Caller

Chapter 13 Ghostly Presences: Tracing the Animal in Julia Leigh’s The Hunter