Bloomsbury, 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.
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Introduction; 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.
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Argues that the Bloomsbury group's fascination with beasts was integral to their exploration of imperialism, race, gender, sexuality and technology.
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781009182973
Publisert
2022-12-15
Utgiver
Vendor
Cambridge University Press
Vekt
530 gr
Høyde
235 mm
Bredde
158 mm
Dybde
21 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
280
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