LEADER 04637nam 22006855 450 001 9911057015803321 005 20260121120413.0 010 $a3-032-05977-1 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-032-05977-2 035 $a(CKB)44999018900041 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC32506344 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL32506344 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-032-05977-2 035 $a(EXLCZ)9944999018900041 100 $a20260121d2026 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aAnimal Lives through Five Centuries of Art and Science $eWho Knows If I am Not Subject to Knowledge? /$fby Ruth Y.Y. Hung 205 $a1st ed. 2026. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer Nature Switzerland :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2026. 215 $a1 online resource (370 pages) 225 1 $aPalgrave Studies in Animals and Literature,$x2634-6346 311 08$a3-032-05976-3 327 $aIntroduction: On Human Aggression -- 1. Mimesis: Sacrifices in the Bible, Oracle Bones, and the Greek Tragedies -- 2. Rational Realism: Specimens in the Italian Renaissance -- 3. Naturalism: Subjects in the Laboratory and the Experimental Novel -- 4. Fascist Aesthetics: The Pack from the Slaughterhouse -- 5. Fantastic Realism: Happy Meat in Happy Meals -- 6. Extinct Species in the Realism of Our Time -- Coda: Commemorating Animals in Literature. 330 $aAnimal Lives through Five Centuries of Art and Science confronts a deep paradox: humanity's greatest achievements in art, science, and philosophy have often relied on the systematic subjugation of animals. This pioneering interdisciplinary work traces how Western knowledge systems have turned animal suffering into spectacle and commodity, from Renaissance anatomy theaters where Leonardo da Vinci painted ermines as symbols of purity while their real-world counterparts were skinned for aristocratic fashion, to today's genetically engineered GloFish. Through six compelling case studies?including the extinction of the quagga, Victorian vivisection debates, and industrial farming?Ruth Y.Y. Hung shows how the same imagination fueling cultural progress has also been used to justify domination. Drawing on thinkers from Erich Auerbach to Donna Haraway, the book offers a radical rethinking of knowledge itself. It reveals that animals have only been understood through frameworks that either aestheticize or erase their lives. Yet, amid these histories of violence, moments of resistance appear: the defiant stare of a vivisected dog, Indigenous cosmologies honoring ecological kinship, and Buddhist deer challenging human-centered views. Hung advocates for "interspecies reimagination," urging a shift from extraction to reciprocity, and calls on readers to develop a new ethics where knowledge serves rather than controls life. Ruth Y.Y. Hung is Associate Professor and Chair of the English Department at Hong Kong Baptist University. She is also a Senior Fellow at Advance HE, a member of the International Association of University Professors of English (IAUPE), and holds editorial roles at the American Journal of Art and Design and boundary 2. Her research includes world literature, modern criticism, and animal studies. Notably, she authored the first English-language critical biography of the Chinese intellectual Hu Feng, titled, Hu Feng: A Marxist Intellectual in a Communist State, 1930-1955 (2020). 410 0$aPalgrave Studies in Animals and Literature,$x2634-6346 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y20th century 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y21st century 606 $aLiterature$xPhilosophy 606 $aEcocriticism 606 $aAnimal welfare$xMoral and ethical aspects 606 $aCognition in animals 606 $aContemporary Literature 606 $aLiterary Theory 606 $aEcocriticism 606 $aAnimal Ethics 606 $aAnimal Cognition 615 0$aLiterature, Modern 615 0$aLiterature, Modern 615 0$aLiterature$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aEcocriticism. 615 0$aAnimal welfare$xMoral and ethical aspects. 615 0$aCognition in animals. 615 14$aContemporary Literature. 615 24$aLiterary Theory. 615 24$aEcocriticism. 615 24$aAnimal Ethics. 615 24$aAnimal Cognition. 676 $a590 700 $aHung$b Ruth Y. Y$01890057 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9911057015803321 996 $aAnimal Lives Through Five Centuries of Art and Science$94531638 997 $aUNINA