Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-198) and index
Introduction: Modernism and the canine condition -- Canine origins : Jack London and Konrad Lorenz -- Mongrelizing form : Virginia Woolf's Flush -- The new dog : Albert Payson Terhune and J.R. Ackerley -- Dogging the subject : Samuel Beckett and Emmanuel Levinas -- Coda: Modernism and literary canine studies.