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An Ecocritical Approach to Cruelty in the Laboratory
- Journal of Animal Ethics
- University of Illinois Press
- Volume 6, Number 2, Fall 2016
- pp. 223-233
- Article
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As newer interdisciplinary fields gain momentum, long-forgotten works are excavated from the literary canon and reevaluated under the lens of ecocriticism. Traditionally, fictional animal characters were seen as merely symbolic, comical, or trivial. Yet times and attitudes have changed, as evidenced by the growing impetus of animal welfare campaigns, posthumanism, and critical animal studies. Few fictional works dealing with laboratory experiments offer a subjective account of the victims’ agonizing experience. This article will examine Mark Twain’s