Philip Armstrong is a Professor of English at Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha/University of Canterbury in Aotearoa New Zealand. He is the author of Shakespeare’s Visual Regime (2000), Shakespeare in Psychoanalysis (Routledge 2001), What Animals Mean in the Literature of Modernity (Routledge 2008), A New Zealand Book of Beasts (co‑written with Annie Potts and Deidre Brown, 2013), Sheep (2016), and two books of poetry.

• Introduction: Moving Nature PART ONE: NATURE’S AGENCIES1. The Literary Seismograph: Earthquakes in European Literature and Thought 2. Fear of the Forest: Cultural Xylophobia from Pliny to Proulx3. Shakespeare’s Vital Parts: Animal, Vegetable, and Meteorological Actors on the Shakespearean StagePART TWO: ANIMAL AFFECTS 4. Baleful Light: Literary Encounters with the Gaze of Animals5. Taxonomy and Wonder: Old World Bestiaries and New World Marvels6. The Lower Deep: Fathoming the Abyss in Moby-DickEpilogue Index

Philip Armstrong is a Professor of English at Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha/University of Canterbury in Aotearoa New Zealand. He is the author of Shakespeare’s Visual Regime (2000), Shakespeare in Psychoanalysis (Routledge 2001), What Animals Mean in the Literature of Modernity (Routledge 2008), A New Zealand Book of Beasts (co‑written with Annie Potts and Deidre Brown, 2013), Sheep (2016), and two books of poetry.

• Introduction: Moving Nature PART ONE: NATURE’S AGENCIES1. The Literary Seismograph: Earthquakes in European Literature and Thought 2. Fear of the Forest: Cultural Xylophobia from Pliny to Proulx3. Shakespeare’s Vital Parts: Animal, Vegetable, and Meteorological Actors on the Shakespearean StagePART TWO: ANIMAL AFFECTS 4. Baleful Light: Literary Encounters with the Gaze of Animals5. Taxonomy and Wonder: Old World Bestiaries and New World Marvels6. The Lower Deep: Fathoming the Abyss in Moby-DickEpilogue Index

Philip Armstrong is a Professor of English at Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha/University of Canterbury in Aotearoa New Zealand. He is the author of Shakespeare’s Visual Regime (2000), Shakespeare in Psychoanalysis (Routledge 2001), What Animals Mean in the Literature of Modernity (Routledge 2008), A New Zealand Book of Beasts (co‑written with Annie Potts and Deidre Brown, 2013), Sheep (2016), and two books of poetry.

• Introduction: Moving Nature PART ONE: NATURE’S AGENCIES1. The Literary Seismograph: Earthquakes in European Literature and Thought 2. Fear of the Forest: Cultural Xylophobia from Pliny to Proulx3. Shakespeare’s Vital Parts: Animal, Vegetable, and Meteorological Actors on the Shakespearean StagePART TWO: ANIMAL AFFECTS 4. Baleful Light: Literary Encounters with the Gaze of Animals5. Taxonomy and Wonder: Old World Bestiaries and New World Marvels6. The Lower Deep: Fathoming the Abyss in Moby-DickEpilogue Index