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Virginia Woolf and the study of nature /
"Reflecting the modernist fascination with science, Virginia Woolf's representations of nature are informed by a wide-ranging interest in contemporary developments in the life sciences. Christina Alt analyses Woolf's responses to disciplines ranging from taxonomy and the new biology o...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover
- Half-title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Works by Virginia Woolf
- Work by Marie Carmichael (Stopes)
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 The natural history tradition
- Taxonomic natural history in the nineteenth century
- The popular practice of natural history
- Woolfs childhood encounter with natural history
- Chapter 2 The modern life sciences
- Darwinian controversies
- The rise of the new biology
- Protection and conservation
- The early protection movement
- The later protection movement
- The psychoanalytic interpretation of collection
- Twentieth-century developments
- Ethology
- Ecology
- Ecology as a science of control
- A co-operative ethic
- Woolfs observation of nature
- Chapter 3 8216;To pin through the body with a name: Virginia Woolf and the taxonomic tradition
- The origins of Woolfs response to taxonomic natural history
- Childhood and natural history in woolfs fiction
- Natural history and the Victorian age
- Collection
- Obsession, Possession, and Control in the voyage out
- Collection and Classification in jacobs room
- Identity formation in the waves
- Chapter 4 Laboratory coats and field-glasses: Virginia Woolf and the modern study of nature
- The new biology
- A room of ones own and the influence of Marie Stopes
- Woolf and the protection movement
- 8216;Miss Ormerod, applied entomology, and the protection movement
- Ethology
- The new naturalists
- The new naturalist in an old naturalist
- Ecology
- Chapter 5 Representing 8216;the manner of our seeing: Literary experimentation and scientific analogy
- Woolfs use of the analogies of collection and taxonomy
- Conceiving of an alternative
- Woolfs adoption of an alternative method
- Notes
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: The natural history tradition
- Chapter 2: The modern life sciences
- Chapter 3: 8216;To pin through the body with a name
- Chapter 4: Laboratory coats and field-glasses
- Chapter 5: Representing 8216;the manner of our seeing
- Bibliography
- Index.