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About the Book

Juliana Schiesari, Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Davis, is the author most recently of Beasts and Beauties: Animals, Gender, and Domestication in the Italian Renaissance.

About the Author

and Desire in Four Modern Writers

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction
1. Re-Visions of Diana in Edith Wharton
2. Colette at Home
3. Romancing the Beast: J.R. Ackerley’s Dog Days and the Meaning of Sex
Afterword

Bibliography
Notes
Index