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Bloomsbury, Beasts and British Modernist Literature Derek Ryan (University of Kent)

Bloomsbury, Beasts and British Modernist Literature By Derek Ryan (University of Kent)

Bloomsbury, Beasts and British Modernist Literature by Derek Ryan (University of Kent)


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Summary

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 It contains unpublished archival material and is informed by interdisciplinary research in natural history, science and critical theory.

Bloomsbury, Beasts and British Modernist Literature Summary

Bloomsbury, Beasts and British Modernist Literature by Derek Ryan (University of Kent)

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.

About Derek Ryan (University of Kent)

Derek Ryan is Senior Lecturer in Modernist Literature at the University of Kent. His previous publications include Animal Theory: A Critical Introduction (2015) and the co-edited volumes The Handbook to the Bloomsbury Group (2018) and Reading Literary Animals: Medieval to Modern (2019).

Table of Contents

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.

Additional information

NPB9781009182973
9781009182973
1009182978
Bloomsbury, Beasts and British Modernist Literature by Derek Ryan (University of Kent)
New
Hardback
Cambridge University Press
2022-12-15
280
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