Beastly journeys : travel and transformation at the fin de siècle
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Beastly journeys : travel and transformation at the fin de siècle
（Liverpool English texts and studies / general editor, Philip Edwards, 63）
Liverpool University Press, 2013
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-219) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.
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 siecle and in metaphors of travel, animals and shape-changing.
目次
Acknowledgements
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. 'an unclean beast': Oscar Wilde
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
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