Gorgeous Beasts

PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESSISBN: 9780271054025

Animal Bodies in Historical Perspective

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Edited by Joan B. Landes, Paula Young Lee, Paul Youngquist
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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


“The essays in this book explore the important, sometimes ambiguous roles that animals play in human culture.”

—E. K. Mix, Choice

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