Animal satire / Robert McKay, Susan McHugh, editors.
McKay, Robert (Lecturer in English literature), editor.; McHugh, Susan (Susan Bridget), editor.
2023
PN6149.S2 A55 2023
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Title
Animal satire / Robert McKay, Susan McHugh, editors.
ISBN
9783031248726 electronic book
3031248724 electronic book
3031248716
9783031248719
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-24872-6
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2023]
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English
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1 online resource (425 p.).
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10.1007/978-3-031-24872-6 doi
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PN6149.S2 A55 2023
Dewey Decimal Classification
809.7
Summary
Animal Satire presents a cultural history of animal satire, a critically neglected but persistent presence in the history of cultural production, in which animals expose human folly while the strategies of satire expose the folly of human-animal relations. Highlighting the teeming animal presences across the history of satirical expression from Aristophanes to Twitter, with chapters on key works of literature, drama, film, and a plethora of satirical media, Animal Satire reveals the rich rhetorical significance of animality in powering the politics of satire from ancient and medieval through modern and contemporary times. More pressingly, the book makes the case for the significance of satire for understanding the real-world implications of rhetoric about animals in ongoing struggles for justice. By gathering both critical and creative examples from representative media forms, historical periods, and continents, this volume aims to enrich scholarship on the history of satire as well as empower creative practitioners with ideas about its practical applications today. Robert McKay is Professor of Contemporary Literature, School of English, University of Sheffield, UK. He has co-edited Animal Remains (2022), Against Value in the Arts and Education (2016), and Werewolves, Wolves and the Gothic (2017). He is the co-author (with the Animal Studies Group) of Killing Animals (2006). Susan McHugh is Professor of English, School of Arts and Humanities, University of New England, USA. She is the author of Love in a Time of Slaughters: Human-animal Stories against Extinction and Genocide (2019), Animal Stories: Narrating across Species Lines (2011), and Dog (2004). She is co-editor of several volumes, including Posthumanism in Art and Science (2021) and Indigenous Creatures, Native Knowledges, and the Arts: Animal Studies in Modern Worlds (Palgrave 2017). Robert McKay and Susan McHugh are co-editors (with John Miller) of the Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature book series, as well as the volume The Palgrave Handbook of Animals and Literature (Palgrave 2021).
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McKay, Robert (Lecturer in English literature), editor.
McHugh, Susan (Susan Bridget), editor.
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Palgrave studies in animals and literature.
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Intro
Acknowledgements
Contents
List of Figures
A Satire by Way of a Preface
Chapter 1: The Hall of the Sovereigns
Introduction
Chapter 2: Animal Satire: An Introduction
Works Cited
Part I: Drama and Poetry: Animal Satire in Classics, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies
Chapter 3: Dogs in Court and Sheep in the Assembly: Animal Satire in Aristophanes
Plot Summary
Animal Imagery in Wasps
The Dog Trial
Sosias' Dream
Philocleon and Animals
Conclusion
Works Cited
Chapter 4: The "Battle of the Frogs and Mice" (Batrachomyomachia) and Satire in the Ancient Greco-Roman Tradition
Satura Quidem ...
Frogs and Mice
Works Cited
Chapter 5: Making an Ass of Yourself? The Pointed Comedy of the Mirror for Fools
Context and Synopsis
Key Elements of Animal Satire and Key Sources in The Mirror for Fools
Key Satirical Targets of The Mirror for Fools
Modern Resonances
Conclusion
Works Cited
Manuscripts and Incunabula
Chapter 6: What Can Beast Fables Do in Literary Animal Studies? Ben Jonson's Volpone and the Prehumanist Human
The Beast Fable
The Paragon of Animals
Old and New Continuums
Works Cited
Chapter 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
Works Cited
Satirical Interruption
Chapter 8: A Slaves' Revolt
Part II: Satirical Editorials and Fiction: Early Through High Modernist Studies
Chapter 9: "A green Parrot for a good Speaker": Writing with a Birds-Eye View in Eliza Haywood's The Parrot
The Avian Eidolon
Allegories and Outsiders: Eighteenth-Century Bird Satire
Reading with Parrots
Figuring out The Parrot
Becoming-Parrot
Conclusion
Works Cited.

Chapter 10: The Lacking Satirical Animals of Mary Shelley's The Last Man
Works Cited
Chapter 11: Learning About Race and Religion with Bob and Felissa: Satire in Nineteenth-Century Children's It-Narratives
Works Cited
Chapter 12: Nineteenth-Century American Anti-extinction Humour: "A Polar Whale's Appeal" as Environmentalist Animal Satire
Sincerity and Sentiment: Misinterpreting "A Polar Whale's Appeal"
Irony and Satire: A Reinterpretation of "A Polar Whale's Appeal"
Works Cited
Chapter 13: Vivisections, Vaccinations, Revelations: Ecofeminist Satire and Biopolitical Dystopia in Frances Power Cobbe's The Age of Science
Works Cited
Chapter 14: "Wolf within the Fold": Satire and Animality in The Brutalitarian and The Beagler Boy
Works Cited
Chapter 15: Animals and Animality in Saki's Satirical Short Stories
Animals and Satirical Short Fiction
Beastly Humans and Unruly Animals in Saki's Short Fiction
Conclusion
Works Cited
Chapter 16: Satire and Significant Otherness in Virginia Woolf's Flush: A Biography
Darwinian Dogs
Woolf, Darwin, Eugenics
From Pedigree to Race and Animality
Racialised Dogs
The Bestialised, Animalised, Working Classes
Works Cited
Satirical Interruption
Chapter 17: How to Slaughter a Human
Part III: Animal Satire in Contemporary Literature, Film and Media Studies
Chapter 18: "Thanks a lot, big brain": Satirical Misanthropy in Kurt Vonnegut's Galápagos
Queer Misanthropy
Posthuman Satire
Lateral Comedy
Works Cited
Chapter 19: "Dogs are supposed to be able to instinctively live with purpose": Brian, Family Guy, and the Inevitable Anthropocentrism of Satire
Works Cited
Chapter 20: The Paradox of the Charismatic Pig in The Simpsons Movie and Okja
The Simpsons and the Spider Pig: Or, with Great Piggery Comes Great Responsibility.

Okja Come Home: Or, a Girl and her Pig Escape from New York
Pigs in the Parlour or a Pig in a Poke? The Industrial/Cinematic Pig
Works Cited
Chapter 21: [Sic] Beasts
The History of Satire and Its Implication for the Texts in Question
Works Cited
Chapter 22: The Satirical Rhetorics of [Re]Tweeting Birds
@Twitter
@OED
@Hungry_Birds
@ProBirdRights
@ChickenTreat
@BigBird
@BirdsArentReal
@Twitter: Redux
Works Cited
A Satire by Way of Conclusion
Chapter 23: The Need for Giant Ape Protection: A Petition to the UNESCO World Heritage Committee
A Grab-bag of Animal Satires
Chapter 24: A Grab-bag of Animal Satires
Ancient and Pre-modern Satires
Sixteenth Century
Seventeenth Century
Eighteenth Century
Nineteenth Century
Twentieth Century
Twenty-First Century
Notes on Contributors
Index.

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