Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Joan B. Landes, Paula Young Lee, and Paul Youngquist
1 Animal Subjects: Between Nature and Invention in Buffon’s Natural History Illustrations
Joan B. Landes
2 Renaissance Animal Things
Erica Fudge
3 The Cujo Effect
Paul Youngquist
4 On Vulnerability: Studies from Life That Ought Not to Be Copied
Ron Broglio
5 The Rights of Man and the Rights of Animality at the End of the Eighteenth Century
Pierre Serna
Translated by Vito Caiati and Joan B. Landes
6 Calling the Wild
Harriet Ritvo
7 Trophies and Taxidermy
Nigel Rothfels
8 Fishing for Biomass
Sajay Samuel and Dean Bavington
9 Daniel Spoerri’s Carnival of Animals
Cecilia Novero
A Conversation with the Artist Mark Dion
Joan B. Landes, Paula Young Lee, and Paul Youngquist
Bibliography
About the Contributors
Index