Introduction : Absent Bodies -- Resisting Bodies : Renaissance Animal Anatomies -- Erotic Bodies : Loving Horses -- Mutual Consumption : The Animal Within -- Animal Architectures : Urban Beasts -- Working Bodies : Laboring Moles and Cannibal Sheep -- Conclusion : Knowing Animals
Summary
This book reconsiders interactions between environment, body, and consciousness found in early modern works, from More's Utopia and Shakespeare's Hamlet to husbandry manuals, anatomy texts, and horsemanship treatises
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-230) and index