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.
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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