Beastly Modernisms
The Figure of the Animal in Modernist Literature and Culture
1st Edition
Published on 31. March 2023
320 pages
978-1-4744-9804-3 (ISBN)
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A contemporary collection of scholarly essays exploring the vibrant intersections of modernist studies and critical animal studies
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Alex Goody | Saskia McCracken
Beastly Modernisms
The Figure of the Animal in Modernist Literature and Culture
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03/2023
123rd Edition
Edinburgh University Press
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Content
- Intro
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Beastly Modernisms
- Part I: Companion Species
- 1. Metamodernist Beasts, or Flush's Future: Ceridwen Dovey's Only the Animals and Sigrid Nunez's Mitz: The Marmoset of Bloomsbury
- 2. Can Flush Count?: Virginia Woolf, Animality and Numbers
- 3. Canine Companions, Race and Affective Anthropomorphism in Florence Ayscough's The Autobiography of a Chinese Dog (1926) and Mary Gaunt's A Broken Journey (1919)
- Part II: Beastly Traces
- 4. Making an Impression Deeply: Authorising Animals in D. H. Lawrence
- 5. Following the Beast Familiar: Djuna Barnes's Family Dramas
- 6. The Taxidermic Imaginary in Modernist Literature
- Part III: Animal, Nation, Empire
- 7. Species Cleansing: The Rhetoric of Rat Control in the People's Republic of Poland 1945-1956
- 8. The Barking Dog and Crying Bird in Partition Stories: Beastly Modernism and the Subaltern Animism of Manto, Rakesh and Anand
- 9. Resistant Reindeers: Human-Animal Relations and Cultural Self-Appropriation in S.mi Art and Literature
- Part IV: Intersections, Encounters
- 10. Animal-Human Entanglements in the Canadian Wild Animal Stories of Charles G. D. Roberts
- 11. Encountering Female Human Animal Becomings in Leonora Carrington's Surrealist Hybrid Tales
- 12. Modern Intersections: Reading Anita Scott Coleman's Animals
- Part V: Extinction, War, Proliferation
- 13. 1940s Avian Noir
- 14. Unhoming the Pigeon: Ahmed Ali's Twilight in Delhi
- 15. The Modernist Jellyfish
- Afterword: The Animal in the Mirror
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
