Beastly Modernisms: The Figure of the Animal in Modernist Literature and Culture

Beastly Modernisms is a collection of scholarly essays that explores the intersections of modernist studies and critical animal studies. It includes cutting-edge research contributions from a diverse range of scholars and offers a classroom-ready resource for undergraduate and graduate courses on modernist writing and critical animal studies. The essays cover a wide range of topics, from dogs in Virginia Woolf to rat propaganda, and chart the current and future state of modernist animal studies.

Format: Hardback
Length: 320 pages
Publication date: 31 March 2023
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

A vibrant and cutting-edge collection of scholarly essays, Beastly Modernisms delves into the intricate intersections of modernist studies and critical animal studies, offering a comprehensive exploration of the diverse range of connections between these two fields.

In this groundbreaking volume, esteemed modernist scholars and emerging researchers come together to reexamine canonical figures and challenge the established geographies of modernism. Drawing from a wide range of interdisciplinary approaches, the contributions in Beastly Modernisms shed light on the complex multispecies dynamics that shaped twentieth-century literature and culture.

The chapters in this collection present a diverse array of approaches and topics, ranging from the portrayal of dogs in Virginia Woolf's novels to the role of animals in Republican China, from the surrealist fascination with animals to African-American texts, from the symbolism of reindeer to the use of rat propaganda, from modernist jellyfish to metamodernist beasts, and from 1940s poetry to Indian Partition stories.

By charting the current state and future directions of modernist animal studies, Beastly Modernisms serves as a vital research resource for scholars in modernist studies, critical animal studies, and related fields. It provides a classroom-ready collection of essays that are relevant to undergraduate and graduate courses on modernist writing and critical animal studies, fostering a deeper understanding of the complex relationships between humans and nonhuman animals in the modern world.

Weight: 616g
Dimension: 162 x 242 x 26 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781474498029
Edition number: 123,495 ed.