Ryan, Derek (2022) Bloomsbury, Beasts and British Modernist Literature. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 280 pp. ISBN 978-1-00-918297-3. (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:91080)
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Abstract
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.
Item Type: | Book |
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Subjects: | P Language and Literature > PR English literature |
Divisions: | Divisions > Division of Arts and Humanities > School of English |
Depositing User: | Derek Ryan |
Date Deposited: | 25 Oct 2021 16:35 UTC |
Last Modified: | 25 Oct 2022 09:08 UTC |
Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/91080 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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