OSNO - Opšta sistematizacija naučnih oblasti, Engleska književnost (studije) OSNO - Opšta sistematizacija naučnih oblasti, Engleska književnost (studije) animal experimentation; anti-vivisectionist movement; Richard Adams; The Plague Dogs “My experiments have taught me great respect for all creatures” : Richard Adams’s the plague dogs and the anti-vivisectionist movement http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode Relying on historical research by A. W. H. Bates, Hilda Kean, Harriet Ritvo, and others, the paper examines Richard Adams’s 1977 novel The Plague Dogs, its stance on scientific experimentation on animals, and its depiction of human−animal relations, against the background of the nineteenth-century anti-vivisectionist movement in Great Britain. Though writing in the 1970s, Adams, it is argued, appropriates, and replicates the anti-vivisectionists’ specific concerns and rhetorical devices – primarily the focus on the human experimenter’s virtue, and the suffering of the animal during experimental procedures – with the general aim of painting animal research as an exercise in sadism with little to no scientific value. The SASE Journal : The Serbian Association for the Study of English, No. 1, 2025, str. 103-122 Niš : Filozofski fakultet Petković, Danijela info:eu-repo/semantics/article eng application/pdfstr. 103-122 414458 bytes https://phaidrani.ni.ac.rs/o:2876 doi:10.46630/sase.1.2025.7 ISSN: 3042-2930 The SASE Journal : The Serbian Association for the Study of English startpage: 103 endpage: 122 2025