Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Edmund Spenser and Animal Studies -- Animals, Spenser, and Literary Form -- Spenser in Early Modern Animal Studies -- Chapter Summaries -- References -- Part I: Animals and Cultural Practices -- Chapter 2: Did Edmund Dream of Shorthaired Sheep? -- Pastoral and Symbolic Animals -- Real Sheep -- Poetic Sheep -- Conclusion: The Silence of the Lambs -- References -- Chapter 3: Spenser, Marine Life, and the Metaphysics of Extinction: Overfishing and the True Monsters of the Deep -- Maritime Pastoral: Spenser's Sea Shepherd and the 'Seas Posterity' -- Spenser and the Sea Monsters of Olaus Magnus -- References -- Part II: Animals, Slavery, and Race -- Chapter 4: The Politics of Hunting: An Aristotelian Reading of Edmund Spenser's Amoretti 67 -- 'For the sake of man' -- Death or Capture -- Sonnet 67 -- Hounds of Love -- A Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5: Errour's Repercussions: Dragons, Race, and Animality in The Faerie Queene -- Theorising Animality and/with Race -- Early Modern Dragons -- St George, Errour, and the Dragon -- Beasts and Race in the 'Chronicle of Briton Kings' -- Conclusion -- References -- Part III: Animals in Complaints -- Chapter 6: Spenser's 'Apish Crue': Aping in Prosopopoia or Mother Hubberds Tale -- Performing Apes -- Speech and the Animal Body -- Spenser's Ape -- Pain and Mimesis -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 7: Scorned Little Creatures?: Insects and Genre in Complaints (1591) -- How Animals Mean -- |