Karen Raber is Professor of English at the University of Mississippi and author of Dramatic Difference: Gender, Class, and Genre in the Early Modern Closet Drama.

• Introduction: Absent BodiesChapter 1. Resisting Bodies: Renaissance Animal AnatomiesChapter 2. Erotic Bodies: Loving HorsesChapter 3. Mutual Consumption: The Animal WithinChapter 4. Animal Architectures: Urban BeastsChapter 5. Working Bodies: Laboring Moles and Cannibal SheepConclusion: Knowing AnimalsNotesBibliographyIndexAcknowledgments

"The study is full of fascinating material . . . all offered to buttress richer readings of early modern culture and its texts. . . . Remarkably well-written, and its erudition is in the service of crisp critical argument." (Studies in English Literature) "Materialist scholarship has been fascinated by bodies in recent decades, yet has neglected to consider embodiment exactly where it seems likely to be especially helpful: in the ecocritical study of our connections with other animals. Karen Raber resolves that paradox and solves many of the problems it reflects, in a highly readable study with vivid instances and large implications." (Robert N. Watson, University of California, Los Angeles)

Karen Raber is Professor of English at the University of Mississippi and author of Dramatic Difference: Gender, Class, and Genre in the Early Modern Closet Drama.

• Introduction: Absent BodiesChapter 1. Resisting Bodies: Renaissance Animal AnatomiesChapter 2. Erotic Bodies: Loving HorsesChapter 3. Mutual Consumption: The Animal WithinChapter 4. Animal Architectures: Urban BeastsChapter 5. Working Bodies: Laboring Moles and Cannibal SheepConclusion: Knowing AnimalsNotesBibliographyIndexAcknowledgments

"The study is full of fascinating material . . . all offered to buttress richer readings of early modern culture and its texts. . . . Remarkably well-written, and its erudition is in the service of crisp critical argument." (Studies in English Literature) "Materialist scholarship has been fascinated by bodies in recent decades, yet has neglected to consider embodiment exactly where it seems likely to be especially helpful: in the ecocritical study of our connections with other animals. Karen Raber resolves that paradox and solves many of the problems it reflects, in a highly readable study with vivid instances and large implications." (Robert N. Watson, University of California, Los Angeles)

Karen Raber is Professor of English at the University of Mississippi and author of Dramatic Difference: Gender, Class, and Genre in the Early Modern Closet Drama.

• Introduction: Absent BodiesChapter 1. Resisting Bodies: Renaissance Animal AnatomiesChapter 2. Erotic Bodies: Loving HorsesChapter 3. Mutual Consumption: The Animal WithinChapter 4. Animal Architectures: Urban BeastsChapter 5. Working Bodies: Laboring Moles and Cannibal SheepConclusion: Knowing AnimalsNotesBibliographyIndexAcknowledgments

"The study is full of fascinating material . . . all offered to buttress richer readings of early modern culture and its texts. . . . Remarkably well-written, and its erudition is in the service of crisp critical argument." (Studies in English Literature) "Materialist scholarship has been fascinated by bodies in recent decades, yet has neglected to consider embodiment exactly where it seems likely to be especially helpful: in the ecocritical study of our connections with other animals. Karen Raber resolves that paradox and solves many of the problems it reflects, in a highly readable study with vivid instances and large implications." (Robert N. Watson, University of California, Los Angeles)