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dc.contributor.authorYoungs, Tim
dc.date.accessioned2018-06-27 23:55
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-10 00:00:00
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-01T14:47:39Z
dc.date.available2020-04-01T14:47:39Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.identifier469302
dc.identifierOCN: 875673696en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/33468
dc.description.abstractA critical exploration of travel, animals and shape-changing in fin de siècle literature. 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 siècle and in metaphors of travel, animals and shape-changing. This title was made Open Access by libraries from around the world through Knowledge Unlatched.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general::DSBF Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900en_US
dc.subject.otherliterature
dc.subject.othermodern history
dc.subject.otherDracula
dc.subject.otherLessingham
dc.subject.otherLondon
dc.subject.otherOscar Wilde
dc.titleBeastly Journeys - Travel and Transformation at the fin de siècle
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.2307/j.ctt5vjbg0
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy4dc2afaf-832c-43bc-9ac6-8ae6b31a53dc
oapen.relation.isFundedByb818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9
oapen.relation.isbn9781781386071
oapen.collectionKnowledge Unlatched (KU)
oapen.pages225
oapen.place.publicationLiverpool, UK
oapen.grant.programKU Pilot
oapen.remark.publicRelevant Wikipedia pages: Dracula - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dracula; Lessingham - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lessingham; London - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London; Oscar Wilde - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Wilde


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