The novel and the menagerie : totality, Englishness, and empire /

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"The first comprehensive account of the relation of collections of imperial beasts to narrative practices in England, The Novel and the Menagerie explores an array of imaginative responses to the empire as a dominant, shaping factor in English daily life. Kurt Koenigsberger argues that domestic...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Koenigsberger, Kurt
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Columbus : Ohio State University Press, ©2007.
Subjects:
1800-1999
English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
English fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
National characteristics, English, in literature.
Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature.
Whole and parts (Philosophy) in literature.
Literature and society > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Literature and society > Great Britain > History > 20th century.
Social institutions in literature.
Imperialism in literature.
Roman anglais > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Roman anglais > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Anglais dans la littérature.
Identité dans la littérature.
Littérature et société > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Littérature et société > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Institutions sociales dans la littérature.
Impérialisme dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
English fiction.
Literature and society.
Nationalkaraktär i litteraturen.
Nationell identitet i litteraturen.
Engelsk litteratur > historia > 1800-talet.
Engelsk litteratur > historia > 1900-talet.
Great Britain.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The novel as zoo: animal stories and English style
  • Picturing Britannia's menagerie: the aesthetics of the imperial whole
  • Circuses in cabinets: the Victorian novelist as beast tamer
  • Elephants in the labyrinth of empire: Arnold Bennett, modernism, and the menagerie
  • Monsters on the verandah of realism: Virginia Woolf's empire exhibition
  • The "Anglepoised" novel after empire: English creatures and postcolonial exhibition
  • Small islands, frozen arks.

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