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Description for Beastly Journeys
Hardcover. A critical exploration of travel, animals and shape-changing in fin de siecle literature. Series: Liverpool English Texts and Studies. Num Pages: 225 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 161 x 234 x 18. Weight in Grams: 500.
An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.
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 ... Read more
An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Series
Liverpool English Texts and Studies
Number of Pages
225
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781846319587
SKU
V9781846319587
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Ref
99-50
About Tim Youngs
Tim Youngs is Professor of English and Travel Studies at Nottingham Trent University and the editor of the journal Studies in Travel Writing. He recently authored The Cambridge Introduction to Travel Writing (2013).
Reviews for Beastly Journeys
Youngs offers a late Victorian menagerie of beasts and men that is compelling and surprising. It suggests that the wavering border between human and animal is one of the decisive borderlines in an era that remains so pivotal to our understanding of the modern world. Consistently inventive. Reviews 'A lively and energetic romp through a wide range of fin de ... Read more