JOHN SIMONS is Head of the School of Humanities and Arts at Edge Hill College of Higher Education. Professor Simons has published extensively on literary topics ranging from the Middle English romances to the contemporary novel and has also written on the history of cricket, the social significance of vegetarianism and the recent war in Kosovo.

• A Very Brief Prelude Introduction: What is an Animal? The Animal in Some Contemporary Thought: A Survey Animal Rights in History: A Survey A Chapter of Vulgar Errors The Animal as Symbol Anthropomorphism: The Non-Human as Human Transformation: The Human as Non-Human and Vice Versa Towards a Conclusion and a Way Forward Epilogue Notes Index

JOHN SIMONS is Head of the School of Humanities and Arts at Edge Hill College of Higher Education. Professor Simons has published extensively on literary topics ranging from the Middle English romances to the contemporary novel and has also written on the history of cricket, the social significance of vegetarianism and the recent war in Kosovo.

• A Very Brief Prelude Introduction: What is an Animal? The Animal in Some Contemporary Thought: A Survey Animal Rights in History: A Survey A Chapter of Vulgar Errors The Animal as Symbol Anthropomorphism: The Non-Human as Human Transformation: The Human as Non-Human and Vice Versa Towards a Conclusion and a Way Forward Epilogue Notes Index

JOHN SIMONS is Head of the School of Humanities and Arts at Edge Hill College of Higher Education. Professor Simons has published extensively on literary topics ranging from the Middle English romances to the contemporary novel and has also written on the history of cricket, the social significance of vegetarianism and the recent war in Kosovo.

• A Very Brief Prelude Introduction: What is an Animal? The Animal in Some Contemporary Thought: A Survey Animal Rights in History: A Survey A Chapter of Vulgar Errors The Animal as Symbol Anthropomorphism: The Non-Human as Human Transformation: The Human as Non-Human and Vice Versa Towards a Conclusion and a Way Forward Epilogue Notes Index