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<strong>Carrie Rohman, Stalking the Subject: Modernism and the Animal (New York: Columbia University Press, 2009)  </strong>

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Focuses mostly on British literary modernism through close readings that track how anxiety about human exceptionalism both follows from Darwinian evolutionary theories premised on the continuity of human and animal lives, and informs the subsequent developments of compensatory theories such as Freud’s “organic repression” of a contradictory animality at the heart of human subjectivity.

[[Category:Twentieth and Twenty-first Century Literature]] - SUSAN McHUGH