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PublisherCambridge University Press

ISBN-101009182978

ISBN-139781009182973

eBay Product ID (ePID)3057255250

Product Key Features

Book TitleBloomsbury, Beasts and British Modernist Literature

Number of Pages280 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicEuropean / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Publication Year2022

IllustratorYes

GenreLiterary Criticism

AuthorDerek Ryan

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.8 in

Item Length9.3 in

Item Width6.2 in

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LCCN2022-015913

Dewey Edition23/eng/20220401

Dewey Decimal820.9/00912

Table Of ContentIntroduction; 1. Leonard Woolf in the jungle; 2. David Garnett and zoo fictions; 3. Virginia Woolf and animal biography; 4. E. M. Forster's nonhuman bundle; 5. David Garnett, flight and earthly creatures.

SynopsisBloomsbury, Beasts and British Modernist Literature reveals how the Bloomsbury group's fascination with beasts - from pests to pets, tiny insects to big game - became an integral part of their critique of modernity and conceptualisation of more-than-human worlds. Through a series of close readings, it argues that for Leonard Woolf, David Garnett, Virginia Woolf and E. M. Forster, profound shifts in interspecies relations were intimately connected to questions of imperialism, race, gender, sexuality and technology. Whether in their hunting narratives, zoo fictions, canine biographies or (un)entomological aesthetics, these writers repeatedly test the boundaries between, and imagine transformations of the human and nonhuman by insisting that we attend to the material contexts in which they meet. In demonstrating this, the book enriches our understanding of British modernism while intervening in debates on the cultural significance of animality from the turn of the twentieth century to the Second World War., By focusing on animals, this book offers fresh perspectives on canonical figures such as Virginia Woolf and E. M. Forster alongside original readings of lesser-studied texts by Leonard Woolf and David Garnett. It contains unpublished archival material and is informed by interdisciplinary research in natural history, science and critical theory.

LC Classification NumberPR478.B46R93 2022