Civilized Creatures: Urban Animals, Sentimental Culture, and American Literature, 1850-1900 (Hardcover)

Acknowledgments
Introduction. Life in the Built Environment
Chapter 1. Animal Bodies: Corporeality, Class, and Equestrianism in Susan Warner's The Wide, Wide World
Chapter 2. Animal Transformations: Sagacious Dogs, Disgusting Apes, Evolutionary Theory, and Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Marble Fawn
Chapter 3. The Domestic Angel Animal: Nature, Nurture, and Difference in the Work of Harriet Beecher Stowe
Chapter 4. Animal Justice: Charles W. Chesnutt, Black Animality, and the Politics of Animal Welfare
Conclusion: Animal Politics, Affect, and American Studies
Notes
Index