Animal Satire

A Satire by Way of a Preface.- 1 The Hall of the Sovereigns.- Introduction.- 2 Animal Satire: An Introduction.- Part I Drama and Poetry: Animal Satire in Classics, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies.- 3 Dogs in Court and Sheep in the Assembly: Animal Satire in Aristophanes.- 4 The "Battle of the Frogs and Mice" (Batrachomyomachia) and Satire in the Ancient Greco-Roman Tradition.- 5 Making an Ass of Yourself? The Pointed Comedy of the Mirror for Fools.- 6 What Can Beast Fables Do in Literary Animal Studies? Ben Jonson's Volpone and the Prehumanist Human.- 7 "That was a rare experiment of transfusing the blood of a sheep into a mad-man": Animal Experiments and Satirical Knowledge in Thomas Shadwell's The Virtuoso.- Satirical Interruption.- 8 A Slaves' Revolt.- Part II Satirical Editorials and Fiction: Early Through High Modernist Studies.- 9 "A green Parrot for a good Speaker": Writing with a Birds-Eye View in Eliza Haywood's The Parrot.-10 The Lacking Satirical Animals of Mary Shelley's The Last Man.- 11 Learning About Race and Religion with Bob and Felissa: Satire in Nineteenth-Century Children's It-Narratives.- 12 Nineteenth-Century American Anti-extinction Humour: "A Polar Whale's Appeal" as Environmentalist Animal Satire.- 13 Vivisections, Vaccinations, Revelations: Ecofeminist Satire and Biopolitical Dystopia in Frances Power Cobbe's The Age of Science.- 14 "Wolf within the Fold": Satire and Animality in The Brutalitarian and The Beagler Boy.- 15 Animals and Animality in Saki's Satirical Short Stories.- 16 Satire and Significant Otherness in Virginia Woolf's Flush: A Biography.- Satirical Interruption.- 17 How to Slaughter a Human.- Part III Animal Satire in Contemporary Literature, Film and Media Studies.- 18 "Thanks a lot, big brain": Satirical Misanthropy in Kurt Vonnegut's Galápagos.- 19 "Dogs are supposed to be able to instinctively live with purpose": Brian, FamilyGuy, and the Inevitable Anthropocentrism of Satire.- 20 The Paradox of the Charismatic Pig in The Simpsons Movie and Okja.- 21 [Sic] Beasts.- 22 The Satirical Rhetorics of [Re]Tweeting Birds.- A Satire by Way of Conclusion.- 23 The Need for Giant Ape Protection: A Petition to the UNESCO World Heritage Committee.- A Grab-bag of Animal Satires.- 24 A Grab-bag of Animal Satires.