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Animal subjects : literature, zoology, and British modernism /
"Animal Subjects identifies a new understanding of animals in modernist literature and science. Drawing on Darwin's evolutionary theory, British writers and scientists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries began to think of animals as subjects dwelling in their own animal wo...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2018.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half Title; Title page; Imprints page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Animal Subjectivity: Darwin, Freud, James; Triangulating Literature, Science, and Animals; Physics, Biology, and the Defamiliarization of the World; Real Toads, Imaginary Gardens; 1 H.G. Wells, Charles Elton, and the Struggle for Existence; 1.1 The Roots of Wells's Bio-pessimism; 1.2 The Wellsian Grotesque; 1.3 Animal Empires; 1.4 Animal Ecology in the Twentieth Century; 1.5 The Struggle Repressed; 2 Aldous Huxley, Henry Eliot Howard, and the Observational Ethic; 2.1 Huxley as Zoological Novelist
- 2.2 Vivisection and Its Discontents2.3 Thin Description and the Observational Ethic; 2.4 What to Do About Nightingales; 3 Romantic Ethologies: D.H. Lawrence and Julian Huxley; 3.1 Lawrence's Animal Philosophy; 3.2 Huxley's Animal Studies; 3.3 Courtship, Sex, and Sexual Selection; 3.4 Animal Language; 3.5 Animal Spirits; 3.6 Thick Description; 4 Bloomsbury's Comparative Psychology: Bertrand Russell, Julian Huxley, J.B.S. Haldane, Virginia Woolf; 4.1 Comparative Psychology and the Problem of Animal Experience; 4.2 Russell and the Subject as Sense-Data
- 4.3 Huxley, Haldane, and the Philosophical Animals4.4 Woolf and the Aesthetics of Animal Experience; 4.5 The Afterlife of Comparative Psychology; Conclusion; Tardigrade; Octopus; Whale; Mantis Shrimp; Animal Stories in the Age of Extinction; Bibliography; Index