Claire Nettleton is Visiting Assistant Professor of French at Pomona College, USA, and editor of Viral Culture: How CRISPR Gene Editing and the Microbiome Transform Humanity and the Humanities (2020), based on a colloquium she organized, and writer of multiple articles and essays on the intersection of animal studies, the history of science, visual art and avant-garde fiction.

• 1. Introduction.- Part I Behind Bars: Artists and Animals of the Second Empire.- 2. A Caged Animal: The Avant-garde Artist in Edmond and Jules de Goncourt’s Manette Salomon.- 3. Buffon Versus the Beast: Taming the Wild Artist in Émile Zola’s Thérèse Raquin.- Part II The Decadent Animals of the Third Republic.- 4. The Decadent Deep Sea: Jules Laforgue’s “At the Berlin Aquarium”.- 5. Said the Spider to the Fly: The Triumph of the Minor in Octave Mirbeau’s In the Sky.- 6. Félline-Fatale: The New Woman as Cat-Woman in Rachilde’s L’Animale.- 7. Conclusion: Henri Rousseau and Synthetic Naïveté.

Claire Nettleton is Visiting Assistant Professor of French at Pomona College, USA, and editor of Viral Culture: How CRISPR Gene Editing and the Microbiome Transform Humanity and the Humanities (2020), based on a colloquium she organized, and writer of multiple articles and essays on the intersection of animal studies, the history of science, visual art and avant-garde fiction.

• 1. Introduction.- Part I Behind Bars: Artists and Animals of the Second Empire.- 2. A Caged Animal: The Avant-garde Artist in Edmond and Jules de Goncourt’s Manette Salomon.- 3. Buffon Versus the Beast: Taming the Wild Artist in Émile Zola’s Thérèse Raquin.- Part II The Decadent Animals of the Third Republic.- 4. The Decadent Deep Sea: Jules Laforgue’s “At the Berlin Aquarium”.- 5. Said the Spider to the Fly: The Triumph of the Minor in Octave Mirbeau’s In the Sky.- 6. Félline-Fatale: The New Woman as Cat-Woman in Rachilde’s L’Animale.- 7. Conclusion: Henri Rousseau and Synthetic Naïveté.

Claire Nettleton is Visiting Assistant Professor of French at Pomona College, USA, and editor of Viral Culture: How CRISPR Gene Editing and the Microbiome Transform Humanity and the Humanities (2020), based on a colloquium she organized, and writer of multiple articles and essays on the intersection of animal studies, the history of science, visual art and avant-garde fiction.

• 1. Introduction.- Part I Behind Bars: Artists and Animals of the Second Empire.- 2. A Caged Animal: The Avant-garde Artist in Edmond and Jules de Goncourt’s Manette Salomon.- 3. Buffon Versus the Beast: Taming the Wild Artist in Émile Zola’s Thérèse Raquin.- Part II The Decadent Animals of the Third Republic.- 4. The Decadent Deep Sea: Jules Laforgue’s “At the Berlin Aquarium”.- 5. Said the Spider to the Fly: The Triumph of the Minor in Octave Mirbeau’s In the Sky.- 6. Félline-Fatale: The New Woman as Cat-Woman in Rachilde’s L’Animale.- 7. Conclusion: Henri Rousseau and Synthetic Naïveté.