Description
Interspecies Interactions surveys the rapidly developing field of human-animal relations from the late medieval and early modern eras through to the mid-Victorian period. By viewing animals as authentic and autonomous historical agents who had a real impact on the world around them, this book concentrates on an under-examined but crucial aspect of the human-animal relationship: interaction.
Each chapter provides scholarly debate on the methods and challenges of the study of interspecies interactions, and together they offer an insight into the part that humans and animals have played in shaping each other’s lives, as well as encouraging reflection on the directions that human-animal relations may yet take. Beginning with an exploration of Samuel Pepys’ often emotional relationships with the many animals that he knew, the chapters cover a wide range of domestic, working, and wild animals and include case studies on carnival animals, cattle, dogs, horses, apes, snakes, sharks, and invertebrates. These case studies of human-animal interactions are further brought to life through visual representation, by the inclusion of over 20 images within the book.
From ‘sleeve cats’ to lion fights, Interspecies Interactions encompasses a broad spectrum of relationships between humans and animals. Covering topics such as use, emotion, cognition, empire, status, and performance across several centuries and continents, it is essential reading for all students and scholars of historical animal studies.
Table of Contents
List of figures
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Erica Fudge
Introduction: Action, Reaction, Interaction in Historical Animal Studies
Sarah Cockram and Andrew Wells
PART 1. EMPATHY, EMOTION AND COMPANIONSHIP
1. Emotions and the Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Carnival of Animals
Ido Ben-Ami
2. Sleeve Cat and Lap Dog: Affection, Aesthetics and Proximity to Companion Animals in Renaissance Mantua
Sarah Cockram
3. Equine Empathies: Giving Voice to Horses in Early Modern Germany
Pia Cuneo
PART 2. USE AND ABUSE
4. The Tale of a Horse: The Levinz Colt, 1721-29
Peter Edwards
5. Animals at the Table: Performing Meat in Early Modern England and Europe
Karen Raber
6. Blurred Lines: Bestiality and the Human Ape in Enlightenment Scotland
Andrew Wells
7. ‘A Disgusting Exhibition of Brutality’: Animals, the Law, and the Warwick Lion Fight of 1825
Helen Cowie
PART 3. SELF AND OTHER: IDENTIFICATION AND CLASSIFICATION
8. Inveterate Travellers and Travelling Invertebrates: Human and Animal in Enlightenment Entomology
Dominik Hünniger
9. Hungarian Grey Cattle: Parallels in Constituting Animal and Human Identities
László Bartosiewicz
10. ‘The Monster’s Mouth…’: Dangerous Animals and the European Settlement of Australia
Krista Maglen
Afterword
Harriet Ritvo
Index
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