The Novel and the Menagerie
Koenigsberger, Kurt.
The Novel and the Menagerie Totality, Englishness, and Empire / Kurt Koenigsberger. - 1 online resource (xvi, 278 p.) : ill., map ; - Book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-259) and index.
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.
Open Access
9780814272282 0814272282
Imperialism in literature.
Social institutions in literature.
Literature and society--History--Great Britain--20th century.
Literature and society--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Whole and parts (Philosophy) in literature.
Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature.
National characteristics, English, in literature.
English fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
English fiction--History and criticism.--19th century
Electronic books.
PR878.N3557 / K64 2007
823/.809358
The Novel and the Menagerie Totality, Englishness, and Empire / Kurt Koenigsberger. - 1 online resource (xvi, 278 p.) : ill., map ; - Book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-259) and index.
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.
Open Access
9780814272282 0814272282
Imperialism in literature.
Social institutions in literature.
Literature and society--History--Great Britain--20th century.
Literature and society--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Whole and parts (Philosophy) in literature.
Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature.
National characteristics, English, in literature.
English fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
English fiction--History and criticism.--19th century
Electronic books.
PR878.N3557 / K64 2007
823/.809358