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Animal Subjects
Caroline Hovanec
其他書名
Literature, Zoology, and British Modernism
出版
Cambridge University Press
, 2018-09-06
主題
Literary Criticism / General
Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory
Literary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / General
Literary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / Nature
Science / Life Sciences / Biology
Science / Life Sciences / Zoology / General
Science / Life Sciences / General
ISBN
1108428398
9781108428392
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=AJ1dDwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
Animal Subjects identifies a new understanding of animals in modernist literature and science. Drawing on Darwin's evolutionary theory, British writers and scientists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries began to think of animals as subjects dwelling in their own animal worlds. Both science and literature aimed to capture the complexity of animal life, and their shared attention to animals pulled the two disciplines closer together. It led scientists to borrow the literary techniques of fiction and poetry, and writers to borrow the observational methods of zoology. Animal Subjects tracks the coevolution of literature and zoology in works by H. G. Wells, Aldous Huxley, D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, and modern scientists including Julian Huxley, Charles Elton, and J. B. S. Haldane. Examining the rise of ecology, ethology, and animal psychology, this book shows how new, subject-centered approaches to the study of animals transformed literature and science in the modernist period.