Valeska Bopp-Filimonov is Junior professor for Romance Studies with special dedication to Romanian Studies at Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena (Germany). Marina Ortrud M. Hertrampf is Habilitated PhD. Professor of French and Spanish Philology (Literature and Cultural Studies) at the University of Passau (Germany).

• Chapter 1. Violent Child-Animal Encounters in Fictional Narratives – Introductory Notes.- Chapter 2. The Girl in a Beast’s Skin. Girlhood, Animality and Violence in Fairy Tales.- Chapter 3. Symbolic Violence towards Nature and Animals as a Symptom of late colonial Discourse: on Victorian Girls’ Periodicals and the Pitfalls of feminine Gentleness.- Chapter 4. “La nécessité nous instruira”. Shipwrecked Children and exotic Animals in Jules Verne’s Deux ans de Vacances.- Chapter 5. “Que no pueden defenderse”. Animal Cruelty in Children and Conceptions of Power in educative Contexts in Spain around 1900.- Chapter 6. “Without first obtaining the views of the imprisoned fly on it”. Tormented Insects in German Literature of the 19th and 20th Centuries.- Chapter 7. The Child ‘merely’ wants to play. The different Perspectives in violent Encounters between Children and Animals in Russian Literature.- Chapter 8. Lessons about Animal Cruelty: The Socialization of Violence in Romanian Literature targeted at young Romanian and English-speaking Audiences.- Chapter 9. The tortured Squirrel in Alexandru Ivasiuc’s Vestibul (1967): Child-animal Violence as an Indicator of traumatic Experiences in Totalitarianism.- Chapter 10. “Some penguins go fishing and never come back”. The Aesthetics of Cluster B Psychopathology in Camilio José Cela’s The Family of Pascual Duarte (1942) and Marieke Lucas Rijneveld’s The Discomfort of Evening (2018).- Chapter 11. From Condemnation to breaking Taboos: Florence Dupré Latour’s Graphic Novel Cruelle (2016) as an autofictional Processing of child Cruelty to Animals.- Chapter 12. Unseen Characters: Human-Animal Encounters in Post-Yugoslav Literature.- Chapter 13. The Sleeping Cat (Joël Bartoloméo, 1992): A Lesson in childish Brutality.