The Palgrave handbook of animals and literature 1. Introduction: Towards and Animal centred Literary History; Susan McHugh Robert McKay and John Miller 2. The Exception and the Norm: Dimensions of Anthropocentrism; Tom Tyler 3. Metaphor Metonymy More than Anthropocentric. The Animal that therefore I Read (and Follow); Ann Sofie Lönngren 4. Narratology beyond the Human: Self Narratives and Inter Species Identities; David Herman 5. An(im)alogical Thinking: Contemporary Black Literature and the Dreaded Comparison; Diana Leong 6. We Are not in this World Alone: On Drawing Close Animal Stories and a Multispecies Sense of Place; Nandini Thiyagarajan 7. A Community of Exiles: Whale and Human Domains in Old English Poetry; Megan Cavell 8. An Ontological Turn for the Medieval Books of Beasts: Environmental Theory from Premodern to Postmodern; Susan Crane 9. Chaucer Lydgate and the Half Heard Nightingale; Carolynn Van Dyke 10. Huntings of the Hare: The Medieval and Early Modern Poetry of Imperilled Animals; Karl Steel 11. Human Animal and Metamorphic Becomings; Carla Freccero 12. Sheep Beasts and Knights: Fugitive Alterity in Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene Book VI and The Shepheardes Calender; Rachel Stenner 13. My Palfrey Myself: Toward a Queer Phenomenology of the Horse Human Bond in Henry V and Beyond; Karen Raber 14. What Can Beast Fables Do in Literary Animal Studies Ben Jonson’s Volpone and the Prehumanist Human; Erica Fudge 15. “Real” Animals and the Eighteenth Century Literary Imagination; Laura Brown 16. Mary Leapor’s Creatureliness in “An Essay on Woman” and Other Poems; Anne Milne 17. Poetics of the Hunt: Re reading Agency and Re thinking Ecology in William Somerville’s The Chase; Richard Nash 18. Beyond Symbolism: The Rights and Biopolitics of Romantic Period Animals; Ron Broglio 19. Bad Dog: The Dark Side of Misbehaving Animals; Chase Pielak 20. Why Animals Matter in Jane Austen; Barbara Seeber 21. John Keats and the Sound of Nature: Reading Poetry in a Time of Extinction; Michael Malay 22. Cooper’s Animal Offences: The Confusion of Species in Last of the Mohicans; Onno Oerlemans 23. Jane Eyre and Tess Durbeyfield at the Human Animal Border; Ivan Kreilkamp 24. Animals and Nonsense: Edward Lear’s Menagerie; Ann Colley 25. Intimacy Objectification and Inter Intra Species Relations in Victorian Animal Autobiographies; Monica Flegel 26. How Not to Eat: Vegetarian Polemics in Victorian India; Parama Roy 27. Modernist Animals and Bioaesthetics; Carrie Rohman 28. Vivisection in Modernist Culture and Popular Fiction 1890–1945; Katherine Ebury 29. Virginia Woolf and Gertrude Stein: Two Modernist Women Writing as Dogs; Marianne Dekoven 30. Kingship Kinship and the King of Beasts in Early Southern African Novels; Jade Munslow Ong 31. Animals Inside: Creatureliness in Dezső Kosztolányi’s Skylark and Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life; Anat Pick 32. Speculative Humanisms: Postwar Universalism and the Question of the Animal; Seán McCorry 33. CanLit’s Ossiferous Fictions: Animal Bones and Fossils in Margaret Atwood’s Life Before Man and Carol Shields’s The Stone Diaries; Sarah Bezan 34. Returning to the Animals’ Gaze: Reflective Readings of Lionesses Marah and Sekhmet; Wendy Woodward 35. “Without the right words it’s hard to retain clarity”: Speculative Fiction and Animal Narrative; Sherryl Vint 36. Jesmyn Ward’s Dog Bite: Mississippi Love and Death Stories; Bénédicte Boisseron 37. Shared and Hefted Lives in Twenty First Century Shepherds’ Calendars; Catherine Parry 38. The Biopolitics of Animal Love: Two Settler Stories; Nicole Shukin 39. Companion Prosthetics: Avatars of Animality and Disability; Michael Lundblad and Jan Grue 40. Denizen Habitations: Spaces of Solidarity in Recent South Asian Fiction; Sundhya Walther 41. Plagues Poisons Dead Rats: In Search of a Medical Posthumanities; Lucinda Cole 42. Last Chance to See: Extinction in Literary Animal Studies and the Environmental Humanities; John Miller. This volume is the first comprehensive guide to current research on animals animality and human animal relations in literature. To reflect the history of literary animal studies to date its primary focus is literary prose and poetry in English while also accommodating emergent discussions of the full range of media and contexts with which literary studies engages especially film and critical theory. User friendly language references even suggestions for further readings are included to help newcomers to the field understand how it has taken shape primarily through recent decades. To further aid teachers sections are organized by conventions of periodization and chapters address a range of canonical and popular texts. Bookended by sections devoted to the field’s conceptual foundations and new directions the volume is designed to set an agenda for literary animal studies for decades to come.