Beastly journeys travel and transformation at the fin de siècle
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...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Liverpool :
Liverpool University Press
2013.
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| Edition: | 1st ed |
| Series: | Liverpool English texts and studies ;
63. |
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009422351206719 |
Table of Contents:
- 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'.
