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The novel and the menagerie : totality, Englishness, and empire (2007)

Koenigsberger, Kurt

Columbus : The Ohio State University Press

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Format: XVI, 278 S , Ill., Kt , 24 cm

ISBN: 0814210570 , 9780814210574 , 9780814291368

Content: 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

Note: 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

Language: English

Subjects: English Studies

RVK:

HG 439

Keywords: Englisch ; Roman ; Zoologischer Garten ; Großbritannien ; Nationalcharakter ; Großmacht ; Geschichte 1840-2000

URL: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip078/2007000236.html

URL: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0732/2007000236-b.html