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The Novel and the Menagerie : Totality, Englishness, and Empire /

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Autore principale: Koenigsberger, Kurt
Natura: Elettronico eBook
Lingua:inglese
Pubblicazione: Columbus : Ohio State University Press, 2007.
Serie:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Soggetti:
Engelsk litteratur > historia > 1900-talet.
Engelsk litteratur > historia > 1800-talet.
Nationell identitet i litteraturen.
Nationalkaraktär i litteraturen.
Whole and parts (Philosophy) in literature.
Social institutions in literature.
National characteristics, English, in literature.
Literature and society.
Imperialism in literature.
Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature.
English fiction.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
Imperialisme dans la litterature.
Institutions sociales dans la litterature.
Litterature et societe > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Litterature et societe > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Identite dans la litterature.
Anglais dans la litterature.
Roman anglais > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Roman anglais > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Literature and society > Great Britain > History > 20th century.
Literature and society > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
English fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
Great Britain.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
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Recensione:"The first comprehensive account of the relation of collections of imperial beasts to narrative practices in England, The Novel and the Menagerie explores an array of imaginative responses to the empire as a dominant, shaping factor in English daily life. Kurt Koenigsberger argues that domestic English novels and collections of zoological exotica (especially zoos, circuses, traveling menageries, and colonial and imperial exhibitions) share important aesthetic strategies and cultural logics: novels about English daily life and displays featuring collections of exotic animals both strive to relate Englishness to a larger empire conceived as an integrated whole." "Koenigsberger's investigations range from readings of novels by authors such as Charles Dickens, Virginia Woolf, Salman Rushdie, and Angela Carter to analyses of ballads, handbills, broadsides, and memoirs of showmen. Attending closely to the collective English practices of imagining and delineating the empire as a whole, The Novel and the Menagerie works at the juncture of literary criticism, colonial discourse studies, and cultural analysis to historicize the notion of totality in the theory and practice of the English novel. In exploring the shapes of the novel in England and of the English institutions that collected exotic animals, it offers fresh readings of familiar literary texts and opens up new ways of understanding the character of imperial Englishness across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries."--Jacket
Descrizione fisica:1 online resource (320 pages): illustrations, map
ISBN:9780814272282
Accesso:Open Access

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