Bloomsbury, Beasts and British Modernist Literature
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…
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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. Forster, profound shifts in interspecies relations were intimately connected to questions of imperialism, race, gender, sexuality and technology. Through a series of close readings, it argues that for Leonard Woolf, David Garnett, Virginia Woolf and E. M.
In demonstrating this, the book enriches our understanding of British modernism while 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.
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