ISBN:
9781781380895
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1781380899
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9781781385524
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1781385521
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9781846319587
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1781386072
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1846319587
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9781781386071
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (x, 225 pages)
Series Statement:
Liverpool English texts and studies 63
Parallel Title:
Print version Youngs, Tim, 1961- Beastly journeys
Keywords:
English literature History and criticism 19th century
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Shapeshifting
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Travel in literature
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Animals in literature
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Literature and society History 19th century
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English literature
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Shapeshifting
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Travel in literature
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Animals in literature
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Literature and society
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Literary studies: general
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Literature and literary studies
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Literature: history and criticism
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LITERARY CRITICISM ; Comparative Literature
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Animals in literature
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English literature
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Literature and society
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Shapeshifting
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Travel in literature
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English
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Languages & Literatures
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English Literature
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Great Britain
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Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900
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Criticism, interpretation, etc
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History
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
A critical exploration of travel, animals and shape-changing in fin de siècle literature. 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 will appeal to anyone interested in the relationship between nineteenth-century literature and its contexts and especially to those interested in the fin de siècle and in metaphors of travel, animals and shape-changing
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction: The Unchaining of the Beast -- 1. City Creatures -- 2. The Bat and the Beetle -- 3. Morlocks, Martians, and Beast-People -- 4. 'Beast and man so mixty': The Fairy Tales of George MacDonald -- 5. Oscar Wilde: 'an unclean beast' -- Conclusion.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-219) and index
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