Stalking the Subject: Modernism and the Animal

Rohman describes how the emergence of Darwin's theory of evolution and, later, Freud's theory of the unconscious so unsettled the previously unquestioned superiority of cultured humanity that modernist literature reacted with "the animalizing of disenfranchised groups and the concomitant humanizing of imperialist power" (29). [...] Rohman offers revealing illustrations in a very timely book-one that forces us to reconsider the animal living within the midst of the modernist subject.