Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Table of contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Prologue: Uplifting Animals; Chapter 1 Looking Up, Looking Down: Orientations of the Human; ''Godlike Erect''; ''Going the Whole Orang'': The Post-Darwinian Fable; The Darwinian Grotesque; Franz Kafka, Fabulist; The Aesopian Grotesque; Chapter 2 The Grotesque Mouth; ''Might Sovereignty Be Devouring?''; Aesop's Symposium of Animal Tongues; On Eating God: The Theological Fables of T. F. Powys; Chapter 3 ''The Highest Civilisation among Ants'': Stevenson and the Fable

Ant TheologyFrog Perspective; Ape Perspective; Chapter 4 ''An Animal among the Animals'': Wells and the Thought of the Future; The Discovery of the Future; Animalizing the Present; The Island of Doctor Moreau; A Topological Fable; Chapter 5 Animal Bachelors and Animal Brides: Kafka, Carter, Garnett; Perforating the Human; Animal Masquerades; ''Animals Are Closer to Us Than Human Beings''; Chapter 6 Scapegoats and Scapegraces: Becoming Sacrificial Animal in Kafka and Coetzee; Scapegoat: The Narrative Animal; What Is It Like to Be a Scapegoat? Elizabeth Costello and Red Peter

Difficult Comparisons''Like a Dog . . . Like a Lamb'': Becoming Sacrificial Animal in Disgrace; From Scapegoat to Scapegrace; Coda: ''Diogenes of the Zoo''; References; Index