The Accommodated Animal
Cosmopolity in Shakespearean Locales
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Acknowledgments
Note on Texts and Terms
FACE Creatures and Cosmopolitans: Before “the Animal”
The Eight Animals in Shakespeare
Trials of Membership: Montaigne versus Descartes
Range of Chapters
Looking Back
1. The Law’s First Subjects: Animal Stakeholders, Human Tyranny, and the Political Life of Early Modern Genesis
A Zootopian Constitution
The Political Terms of Cross-Species Relations
Bestiae contra Tyrannos: Sidney’s “Ister Bank”
Desert Citizens: Edenic Species-Memory in Shakespeare’s Arden
2. A Cat May Look upon a King: Four-Footed Estate, Locomotion, and the Prerogative of Free Animals
Biped Fantasies: Mah-ah-ah-ah-ah-narch of All I Survey
The Course of Kind, “Unyoked”
Fight, Flight, or Stay and Obey: Animal Prerogatives
The Flick of History’s Tail
3. Poor, Bare, Forked: Animal Happiness and the Zoographic Critique of Humanity
The Insufficient Animal
Nudus in Nuda Terra: Unaccommodated Man
The Animals Testify: Plutarch and Gelli
The Unhappy Beast in King Lear
4. Night-Rule: The Alternative Politics of the Dark; or, Empires of the Nonhuman
Night’s Black Agents, Human Night Blindness
Contingencies of Kind: “Who Knowes?”
Baldwin’s Beware the Cat: Assisted Cognition Reveals Feline Empire!
Where the Vile Things Rule: A Midsummer Night
5. Hang-Dog Looks: From Subjects at Law to Objects of Science in Animal Trials
Answerable Animals in a Justiciable Cosmos
Whip Him Out; Hang Him Up!
Cosmopolity in The Merchant of Venice
Laid on by Manacles: Disanimation, Vivisection, and the Vacuum Tube
A Scotch Verdict on Humanity
TAIL Raleigh’s Ark: The Early Modern Arithmetic of Livestock
Index
Rice University: Elizabeth Dietz Memorial Award
Won
History: History of Ideas
Literature and Literary Criticism: British and Irish Literature | General Criticism and Critical Theory
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