Focusing on the socialization of the human use of other animals as resources in
contemporary Western society, this book explores the cultural reproduction of human …

Although the British consider themselves a nation of dog lovers, what we have come to know
as the modern dog came into existence only after a profound, and relatively recent …

Uses literature to understand and remake our ethics regarding nonhuman animals, old
human beings, disabled human beings, and cloned posthumans Literary Bioethics argues …

Animal rights activists today regularly use visual imagery in their efforts to shape the public's
understanding of what it means to be “kind,”“cruel,” and “inhumane” toward animals. Art for …

Of all the beings that are, presumably the most difficult to think about are living creatures,
because… they are in a certain way most closely akin to us, and… are at the same time …

Through a reading of HG Wells' nineteenth-century dystopian novel, The Island of Dr.
Moreau, I draw on the concept of the monstrous feminine in an attempt to rethink …

In the second half of the nineteenth century, vivisection, a technology of evolutionary
biology, inspired debate regarding the limits of human connection with other species …

“Howled out of” England for his “wantonly cruel” experiments on animals, the eponymous
vivisector of HG Wells' gory 1896 work of science fiction, The Island of Dr. Moreau, sets up …

The writings of HG Wells have had a profound influence on literary and cinematic depictions
of the present and the possible future, and modern science fiction continues to be indebted …

This chapter explores the influence of Darwinism on the representation of vegetarianism in
the foundational science fiction and utopian works of HG Wells. It begins by examining the …