04348nam 22008412 450 991013251070332120230621140515.01-78138-089-91-78138-552-11-78138-607-2(CKB)3580000000000735(EBL)1531581(SSID)ssj0001172999(PQKBManifestationID)12483694(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001172999(PQKBWorkID)11192891(PQKB)11752394(StDuBDS)EDZ0000240437(UkCbUP)CR9781781385524(OCoLC)1138051233(MdBmJHUP)muse82880(Au-PeEL)EBL1531581(CaPaEBR)ebr11304608(OCoLC)890980841(OCoLC)875673696(ScCtBLL)68a3933e-6450-417d-bfc6-ba473f2b6b99(Au-PeEL)EBL6898750(MiAaPQ)EBC1531581(MiAaPQ)EBC6898750(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/34001(PPN)266626998(EXLCZ)99358000000000073520170307d2013|||| uy| 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierBeastly journeys travel and transformation at the fin de siècle /Tim Youngs[electronic resource]LiverpoolLiverpool University Press2013Liverpool :Liverpool University Press,2013.1 online resource (x, 225 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Liverpool English texts and studies ;63Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Aug 2017).1-84631-958-7 Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-219) and index.Introduction: the unchaining of the beast --City creatures --The bat and the beetle --Morlocks, martians, and beast-people --'Beast and man so mixty': the fairy tales of George MacDonald --Oscar Wilde: 'an unclean beast'.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, science fiction, fantasy, fairy tales, journalism, political discourse, realism or naturalism, the line between the human and the animal becomes blurred. Beastly Journeys examines these bestial transformations across a range of well-known and less familiar texts and shows how they are provoked not only by the mutations of Darwinism but by social and economic shifts that have been lost in retellings and readings of them. The physical alterations described by George Gissing, George MacDonald, Arthur Machen, Arthur Morrison, W.T. Stead, Bram Stoker, H.G. Wells, Oscar Wilde, and many of their contemporaries, are responses to changes in the social body as Britain underwent a series of social and economic crises. Metaphors of travel - social, spatial, temporal, mythical and psychological - keep these stories on the move, confusing literary genres along with the indeterminacy of physical shape that they relate. Beastly Journeys will appeal to anyone interested in the relationship between nineteenth-century literature and its contexts and especially to those interested in the fin de siècle and in metaphors of travel, animals and shape-changing.Liverpool English texts and studies ;63.English literature19th centuryHistory and criticismLiterature and societyGreat BritainHistory19th centuryAnimals in literatureTravel in literatureShapeshiftingLiteratureModern HistoryDraculaLessinghamLondonOscar WildeEnglish literatureHistory and criticism.Literature and societyHistoryAnimals in literature.Travel in literature.Shapeshifting.820.935509034Youngs Tim1961-282301UkCbUPUkCbUPBOOK9910132510703321Beastly journeys2130564UNINA