Other Nations : Animals in Modern Literature

The world's first anthology designed to employ the power of fiction to illuminate our moral relationship with animals, Other Nations boasts a superb collection of writings from writers of great distinctionincluding Ernest Hemingway, George Orwell, and Alice Walker. By organizing the literary pieces according to the means by which human beings relate to the animals discussedas companions, as sources of food, as objects of sport and entertainment, and as subjects in scientific researchpreeminent scholars Tom Regan and Andrew Linzey enable readers to relate these texts (and these animals) to their own experiences and to the manifold issues now discussed in public forums. While the editors believe the time is ripe for radical change in the way human beings see and treat animals, this collection nonetheless presents various and contrary viewpoints, leaving readers to come to their own moral conclusions.

Tom Regn is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at North Carolina State University. He is a prolific author whose books include Animal Rights, Human Wrongs: An Introduction to Moral Philosophy and Empty Cages: Facing the Challenge of Animal Rights. Andrew Linzey is Director of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics and a member of the Faculty of Theology at Oxford University. He is the author or editor of more than twenty books, including Animal Rights: A Christian Assessment and Why Animal Suffering Matters: Philosophy, Theology, and Practical Ethics.