LEADER 04348nam 22008412 450 001 9910132510703321 005 20230621140515.0 010 $a1-78138-089-9 010 $a1-78138-552-1 010 $a1-78138-607-2 035 $a(CKB)3580000000000735 035 $a(EBL)1531581 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001172999 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12483694 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001172999 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11192891 035 $a(PQKB)11752394 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000240437 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781781385524 035 $a(OCoLC)1138051233 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse82880 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1531581 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11304608 035 $a(OCoLC)890980841 035 $a(OCoLC)875673696 035 $a(ScCtBLL)68a3933e-6450-417d-bfc6-ba473f2b6b99 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6898750 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1531581 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6898750 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/34001 035 $a(PPN)266626998 035 $a(EXLCZ)993580000000000735 100 $a20170307d2013|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aBeastly journeys $etravel and transformation at the fin de sie?cle /$fTim Youngs$b[electronic resource] 210 $aLiverpool$cLiverpool University Press$d2013 210 1$aLiverpool :$cLiverpool University Press,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (x, 225 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aLiverpool English texts and studies ;$v63 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Aug 2017). 311 $a1-84631-958-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 211-219) and index. 327 $aIntroduction: 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'. 330 $aBats, beetles, wolves, butterflies, bulls, panthers, apes, leopards and spiders are among the countless creatures that crowd the pages of literature of the late nineteenth century. Whether in Gothic novels, science fiction, fantasy, fairy tales, journalism, political discourse, realism or naturalism, the line between the human and the animal becomes blurred. Beastly Journeys examines these bestial transformations across a range of well-known and less familiar texts and shows how they are provoked not only by the mutations of Darwinism but by social and economic shifts that have been lost in retellings and readings of them. The physical alterations described by George Gissing, George MacDonald, Arthur Machen, Arthur Morrison, W.T. Stead, Bram Stoker, H.G. Wells, Oscar Wilde, and many of their contemporaries, are responses to changes in the social body as Britain underwent a series of social and economic crises. Metaphors of travel - social, spatial, temporal, mythical and psychological - keep these stories on the move, confusing literary genres along with the indeterminacy of physical shape that they relate. Beastly Journeys will appeal to anyone interested in the relationship between nineteenth-century literature and its contexts and especially to those interested in the fin de sie?cle and in metaphors of travel, animals and shape-changing. 410 0$aLiverpool English texts and studies ;$v63. 606 $aEnglish literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aLiterature and society$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aAnimals in literature 606 $aTravel in literature 606 $aShapeshifting 610 $aLiterature 610 $aModern History 610 $aDracula 610 $aLessingham 610 $aLondon 610 $aOscar Wilde 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aLiterature and society$xHistory 615 0$aAnimals in literature. 615 0$aTravel in literature. 615 0$aShapeshifting. 676 $a820.935509034 700 $aYoungs$b Tim$f1961-$0282301 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910132510703321 996 $aBeastly journeys$92130564 997 $aUNINA