Introduction: facing up to ourselves
Humors, temperaments, and signs
Fixing the signs
Feelings and faces
Souls and machines
From meaning to mechanism
Fable and fact: La Fontaine and Buffon
Going ape
Beastly boys and admirable animals
Our animal cousins
Art and atavism
A literary-cinematic postscript.
The human animal in Western art and science by Martin Kemp. ISBN 9780226430331. Published by University of Chicago Press in 2007. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.