Beastly Journeys: Travel and Transformation at the fin de siecle - Couverture rigide

Youngs, Tim

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1846319587 ISBN 13 : 9781846319587

Editeur : Liverpool University Press, 2013

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Bats, beetles, wolves, butterflies, bulls, panthers, apes, leopards and spiders are among the countless creatures that crowd the pages of literature of the late nineteenth century. Whether in Gothic novels, science fiction, fantasy, fairy tales, journalism, political discourse, realism or naturalism, the line between the human and the animal becomes blurred. Beastly Journeys examines these bestial transformations across a range of well-known and less familiar texts and shows how they are provoked not only by the mutations of Darwinism but by social and economic shifts that have been lost in retellings and readings of them. The physical alterations described by George Gissing, George MacDonald, Arthur Machen, Arthur Morrison, W.T. Stead, Bram Stoker, H.G. Wells, Oscar Wilde, and many of their contemporaries, are responses to changes in the social body as Britain underwent a series of social and economic crises. Metaphors of travel - social, spatial, temporal, mythical and psychological - keep these stories on the move, confusing literary genres along with the indeterminacy of physical shape that they relate. Beastly Journeys should appeal to anyone interested in the relationship between nineteenth-century literature and its contexts and especially to those interested in the fin de siecle and in metaphors of travel, animals and shape-changing.

Revue de presse

A lively and energetic romp through a wide range of fin de siecle texts ... Youngs' readings are smart, and they take implicit aim at a kind of animal-recuperation tendency in the historiography that is most welcome as "post-human" analyses take root in literary studies. --Professor Antoinette Burton

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Liverpool University Press
• Date d'édition: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1846319587
• ISBN 13: 9781846319587
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 225