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Title Animal satire / Robert McKay, Susan McHugh, editors
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2023]

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Description 1 online resource (425 p.)
Series Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature
Palgrave studies in animals and literature.
Contents 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
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)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 31, 2023)
Subject Satire -- History and criticism.
Animals -- Humor
Form Electronic book
Author McKay, Robert (Lecturer in English literature), editor.
McHugh, Susan (Susan Bridget), editor.
ISBN 9783031248726
3031248724