Introduction; Animal Subjectivity: Darwin, Freud, James; Triangulating Literature, Science, and Animals; Physics, Biology, and the Defamiliarization of the World; Real Toads, Imaginary Gardens; 1 H. G. Wells, Charles Elton, and the Struggle for Existence; 1.1 The Roots of Wells's Bio-pessimism; 1.2 The Wellsian Grotesque; 1.3 Animal Empires; 1.4 Animal Ecology in the Twentieth Century; 1.5 The Struggle Repressed; 2 Aldous Huxley, Henry Eliot Howard, and the Observational Ethic; 2.1 Huxley as Zoological Novelist

2.2 Vivisection and Its Discontents2.3 Thin Description and the Observational Ethic; 2.4 What to Do About Nightingales; 3 Romantic Ethologies: D. H. Lawrence and Julian Huxley; 3.1 Lawrence's Animal Philosophy; 3.2 Huxley's Animal Studies; 3.3 Courtship, Sex, and Sexual Selection; 3.4 Animal Language; 3.5 Animal Spirits; 3.6 Thick Description; 4 Bloomsbury's Comparative Psychology: Bertrand Russell, Julian Huxley, J. B. S. Haldane, Virginia Woolf; 4.1 Comparative Psychology and the Problem of Animal Experience; 4.2 Russell and the Subject as Sense-Data

4.3 Huxley, Haldane, and the Philosophical Animals4.4 Woolf and the Aesthetics of Animal Experience; 4.5 The Afterlife of Comparative Psychology; Conclusion; Tardigrade; Octopus; Whale; Mantis Shrimp; Animal Stories in the Age of Extinction; Bibliography; Index.