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Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Animals and Authority 1 Chapter one Sixteenth-Century Animal Avatars in Montaigne and His Contemporaries 15 Chapter two Job’s Horse and Other Creatures: Animal Analogies in Du Bartas’s Protestant Poetics 39 Chapter three The Fauna of Faith: Animating Spirituality 61 Chapter Four Le Père Bougeant’s Heresy: Animal Societies, Languages, and Souls 93 Conclusion: Faith in Fauna 125 Notes 139 Bibliography 161 Index 169 ...

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