Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction

Chapter One: Nude Vibrations: Isadora Duncan's Creatural Aesthetic
Chapter Two: Creative Incantations and Involutions in D. H. Lawrence
Chapter Three: Woolf's Floating Monkeys and Whirling Women
Chapter Four: Strange Prosthetics: Rachel Rosenthal's Rats and Rings
Chapter Five: UnCaging Cunningham's Animals

Afterword
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Carrie Rohman is Associate Professor of English at Lafayette College and the author of Stalking the Subject (2008).

Reviews

"Carrie Rohman's Choreographies of the Living [is] a well-argued and physically attuned book that seeks to foster new interactions between animal studies and dance studies." -- Kari Weil, Wesleyan University, Theatre Journal
"Drawing on her intimate knowledge of dance as much as on her scholarly studies of literature, art, and performance, Rohman elaborates the thesis that in fact art has deep roots in the nonhuman world, and that the same creative force that impels us to make it also courses through the non-human animals from whom it-and we-are descended [...] Rohman makes clear, bioaesthetics calls for nothing less than a radical revision to our understanding of art [...] Rohman
presents her ideas with merciful clarity, and the book should be accessible to the art-curious from all disciplines [...] In an era that's witnessing a growing respect for the intelligence of the body,
the bioaesthetic call for a rethinking of art could hardly be more timely." --The Brooklyn Rail
"Given its clear, accessible style and its focus on engagements with animality in 20th- and 21st- century literature, art, and performance, Choreographies of the Living promises to have broad appeal for specialists and students across the arts and humanities...This watershed study will be relevant not only for readers based in animal studies and modernist, postmodernist, and/or contemporary literature, but also for readers interested in dance, theater
and performance studies, cultural studies, history, and philosophy." --David Herman, author of Narratology beyond the Human: Storytelling and Animal Life (OUP 2018)
"Choreographies of the Living constitutes a highly important and original intervention into the field of animal studies in the humanities. Carrie Rohman has carried existing arguments about the centrality of animality to aesthetic activity a significant step further, arguing that, in her terms, the aesthetic is animalELan ambitious argument but one that Rohman makes very persuasively." --Marianne DeKoven, Professor Emerita of English, Rutgers University