Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-169) and index.
Contents:
Happy families in Charles Dickens's David Copperfield and Oliver Twist -- Canine connections in George Eliot's Adam Bede and Middlemarch -- The ugly animal in Margaret Marshall Saunders's Beautiful Joe and Beautiful Joe's Paradise -- Deceptive docility in Bram Stoker's Dracula -- The bare-dog in Jack London's Call of the wild and White Fang.
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