Humans and other animals in eighteenth-century British culture : representation, hybridity, ethics

Contents: Introduction: Representation, hybridity, ethics, Frank Palmeri Gross metempsychosis and Eastern soul, Chi-ming Yang The Lady and the Lapdog: mixed ethnicity in Constantinople, fashionable pets in Britain, Theresa Braunschneider Gulliver's Travels and studies of skin color in the Royal Society, Cristina Malcolmson Gulliver the Houyahoo: Swift, Locke, and the ethics of excessive individualism, Allen Michie The autocritique of fables, Frank Palmeri Animal nomenclature: facing other animals, Richard Nash Man's animal nature: science, art, and satire in Thomas Rowlandson's 'studies in comparative anatomy', Arline Meyer 'Listen to me': Frankenstein as an appeal to mercy and justice, on behalf of the persecuted animals, Stephanie Rowe Shelley's great chain of being: from 'blind worms' to 'new-fledged eagles', Lisbeth Chapin Gulliver and the lives of animals, Jonathan Lamb Animal, vegetable, mineral: the play of species in Pynchon's Mason & Dixon, Elizabeth Jane Wall Hinds Bibliography Index.