LEADER 03906nam 2200685Ia 450 001 9910785517303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-231-51856-0 024 7 $a10.7312/rohm14506 035 $a(CKB)2670000000241351 035 $a(EBL)908731 035 $a(OCoLC)818856325 035 $a(DE-B1597)459276 035 $a(OCoLC)1013938125 035 $a(OCoLC)979904230 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231518567 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL908731 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10595234 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL690480 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC908731 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000241351 100 $a20080131d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aStalking the subject$b[electronic resource] $emodernism and the animal /$fCarrie Rohman 210 $aNew York $cColumbia University Press$dc2009 215 $a1 online resource (209 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-231-14507-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [177]-183) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $t1. The Animal Among Others -- $t2. Imperialism and Disavowal -- $t3. Facing the Animal -- $t4. Recuperating the Animal -- $t5. Revising the Human -- $tConclusion. Animal Studies, Ethics, and the Humanities -- $tNotes -- $tWorks Cited -- $tIndex 330 $aHuman and animal subjectivity converge in a historically unprecedented way within modernism, as evolutionary theory, imperialism, antirationalism, and psychoanalysis all grapple with the place of the human in relation to the animal. Drawing on the thought of Jacques Derrida and Georges Bataille, Carrie Rohman outlines the complex philosophical and ethical stakes involved in theorizing the animal in humanism, including the difficulty in determining an ontological place for the animal, the question of animal consciousness and language, and the paradoxical status of the human as both a primate body and a "human" mind abstracting itself from the physical and material world. Rohman then turns to the work of Joseph Conrad, D. H. Lawrence, H. G. Wells, and Djuna Barnes, authors who were deeply invested in the relationship between animality and identity. The Island of Dr. Moreau embodies a Darwinian nightmare of the evolutionary continuum; The Croquet Player thematizes the dialectic between evolutionary theory and psychoanalysis; and Women in Love, St. Mawr, and Nightwood all refuse to project animality onto others, inverting the traditional humanist position by valuing animal consciousness. A novel treatment of the animal in literature, Stalking the Subject provides vital perspective on modernism's most compelling intellectual and philosophical issues. 606 $aAnimals in literature 606 $aAnimals$xSymbolic aspects 606 $aEnglish literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEnglish literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEthics in literature 606 $aEvolution (Biology) in literature 606 $aHuman-animal relationships in literature 606 $aModernism (Literature)$zGreat Britain 615 0$aAnimals in literature. 615 0$aAnimals$xSymbolic aspects. 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEthics in literature. 615 0$aEvolution (Biology) in literature. 615 0$aHuman-animal relationships in literature. 615 0$aModernism (Literature) 676 $a820.9/362 700 $aRohman$b Carrie$01507039 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910785517303321 996 $aStalking the subject$93737499 997 $aUNINA