Killing animals /
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Imprint: | Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2006. |
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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 |
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