The emerging interdisciplinary field of animal studies seeks to shed light on the nature of
animal experience and the moral status of animals in ways that overcome the limitations of …

When Jack London's human characters interact with dogs and wolves in texts such as the
call of the wild (1903) and White Fang (1906), erotic fireworks often light up the wild. The …

This book identifies a strand of what it calls" Accidental Orientalism" in narratives by Italians
who found themselves in Ottoman Egypt and Anatolia in the late nineteenth and early …

Abstract" Nature" in general, and nonhuman animals more specifically, have long
constituted a fertile repository from which to construct normative and deviant discourses of …

This article focuses on the relationship between the definitions of home and the
contemporary figure of the migrant. The specific context is the politics of representation that …

Abstract This essay examines Henry James's “The Beast in the Jungle” through the dual
lenses of feminist theory and animality studies. It argues that May Bartram slowly erodes …

What is the historical relationship between the rise of modern sexualities, changing
understandings of animal welfare, and how Americans discuss and regulate sex with …

What kind of lover is a dog lover? The question pushes boundaries, animates taboos. We
generally use “dog lover” in a way that is desexualized. Moreover, we designate a …

This thesis works towards establishing a legacy of influence between George Eliot's “The
Lifted Veil” and Henry James'“The Beast in the Jungle.” Through an exploration of James' …

This article develops the concept of animality studies as distinguished from animal studies.
The former focuses on the cultural study of animals and animality, while the latter explores …