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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      December 2022
      December 2022
      ISBN:
      9781009182997
      9781009182973
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009182997
      Dimensions:
      (235 x 158 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.53kg, 258 Pages
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      • Subjects:
      Literature, English Literature: General Interest, English Literature 1900-1945
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    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.

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