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This big, beautiful, growling, howling book is as revelatory about language as it is about the natural history of our animal kinships: the curtailed dog, the sovereignties of motion, and the race of locomotive animals invite us to encounter familiar words on all fours, our phantom tails and impotent noses newly alert to semantic climate changes. --Julia Reinhard Lupton Studies in English Literature 1500 1900 This big, beautiful, growling, howling book is as revelatory about language as it is about the natural history of our animal kinships: the 'curtailed' dog, the 'sovereignties' of motion, and the 'race' of locomotive animals invite us to encounter familiar words on all fours, our phantom tails and impotent noses newly alert to semantic climate changes. --Julia Reinhard Lupton Studies in English Literature 1500 1900

This big, beautiful, growling, howling book is as revelatory about language as it is about the natural history of our animal kinships: the 'curtailed' dog, the 'sovereignties' of motion, and the 'race' of locomotive animals invite us to encounter familiar words on all fours, our phantom tails and impotent noses newly alert to semantic climate changes. --Julia Reinhard Lupton Studies in English Literature 1500 1900

This big, beautiful, growling, howling book is as revelatory about language as it is about the natural history of our animal kinships: the curtailed dog, the sovereignties of motion, and the race of locomotive animals invite us to encounter familiar words on all fours, our phantom tails and impotent noses newly alert to semantic climate changes. --Julia Reinhard Lupton Studies in English Literature 1500 1900

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Laurie Shannon is associate professor of English and the Wender Lewis Teaching and Research Professor at Northwestern University.

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