Killing animals /

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Imprint:Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2006.
Description:viii, 215 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5894432
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Other authors / contributors:Animal Studies Group.
ISBN:9780252030505 (cloth : alk. paper)
0252030508 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780252072901 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0252072901 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1. Wild Killing: Contesting the Animal in Hunting
  • 2. What Is Doing the Killing? Animal Attacks, Man-Eaters, and Shifting Boundaries and Flows of Human-Animal Relations
  • 3. Pangs Watched in Perpetuity: Sir Edwin Landseer's Pictures of Dying Deer and the Ethos of Victorian Sportsmanship
  • 4. "You Kill Things to Look at Them": Animal Death in Contemporary Art
  • 5. Two Ethics: Killing Animals in the Past and the Present
  • 6. Conflicts around Slaughter in Modernity
  • 7. BSE, Hysteria, and the Representation of Animal Death: Deborah Levy's Diary of a Steak
  • 8. Killing Animals in Animal Shelters
  • Conclusion: A Conversation
  • Index