Beastly Journeys : Travel and Transformation at the fin de siècle /

A critical exploration of travel, animals and shape-changing in fin de siecle literature. Bats, beetles, wolves, butterflies, bulls, panthers, apes, leopards and spiders are among the countless creatures that crowd the pages of literature of the late nineteenth century. Whether in Gothic novels, sci...

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Autore principale: Youngs, Tim, 1961- (Autore)
Natura: Elettronico eBook
Lingua:inglese
Pubblicazione: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2013.
Serie:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Sommario:
  • Introduction: The Unchaining of the Beast
  • 1. City Creatures
  • 2. The Bat and the Beetle
  • 3. Morlocks, Martians, and Beast-People
  • 4. 'Beast and man so mixty': The Fairy Tales of George MacDonald
  • 5. Oscar Wilde: 'an unclean beast'
  • Conclusion.