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 readi...

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Main Author:	Ryan, Derek ca. 20./21. Jh (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, UK ; New York Cambridge University Press 2023
Subjects:	Bloomsbury group Human-animal relationships in literature Modernism (Literature) / Great Britain Modernism (Aesthetics) / Great Britain English literature / 20th century / History and criticism Literatur Tiere > Motiv Bloomsbury (London, England) / Intellectual life / 20th century
Online Access:	BSB01 UBG01 Volltext
Summary:	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, human and nonhuman by insisting that we attend to the material contexts in which they meet. In demonstrating this, the book enrichens 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
Item Description:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Dec 2022)
Physical Description:	1 Online-Ressource (xi, 244 Seiten)
ISBN:	9781009182997
DOI:	10.1017/9781009182997