pt. 1. Science and sentiment. Animal angst : Victorians memorialize their pets / Teresa Mangum -- Victorian beetlemania / Cannon Schmitt -- Killing elephants: pathos and prestige in the Nineteenth Century / Nigel Rothfels -- Designs after nature: evolutionary fashions, animals, and gender / Susan David Bernstein -- Dying like a dog in 'Great Expectations' / Ivan Kreilkamp -- pt. 2. Sex and violence. Nature red in hoof and paw : domestic animals and violence in Victorian art / Martin A. Danahay -- 'The crossing o' breeds' in 'The mill on the floss' / Mary Jean Corbett -- Horses and sexual/social dominance / Elsie B. Michie -- Pacific harvests: whales and albatrosses in Nineteenth-Century markets / Anca Vlasopolos -- pt. 3. Sin and Bestiality. 'The mark of the beast': animals as sites of imperial encounter from 'Wuthering Heights to Green Mansions' / Deborah Denenholz Morse -- Beastly criminals and criminal beasts : stray women and stray dogs in 'Oliver Twist' / Grace Moore -- The sins of sloths : the moral status of fossil megatheria in Victorian culture / Alan Rauch -- Tiger tales / Heather Schell -- The empire bites back: the racialized crocodile of the Nineteenth Century / Mary Elizabeth Leighton, Lisa Surridge.