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Bloomsbury, Beasts and British Modernist Literature
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.
Book Details
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Publish Date: Dec 15th, 2022
- Pages: 280
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 9.00in - 6.00in - 0.75in - 1.21lb
- EAN: 9781009182973
- Categories: • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
About the Author
Ryan, Derek: - 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).