The novel and the menagerie
Subtitle: totality, Englishness, and empire
By: Kurt Koenigsberger.
Publisher: The Ohio State University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Columbus
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780814210574; 9780814291368
Subjects: English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.; English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; National characteristics, English, in literature.; Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature.; Whole and parts (Philosophy) in literature.; Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.; Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.; Social institutions in literature.; Imperialism in literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.   ) and index.
Table of contents: value: The novel as zoo: animal stories and English style; value: Picturing Britannia's menagerie: the aesthetics of the imperial whole; value: Circuses in cabinets: the victorian novelist as beast tamer; value: Elephants in the labyrinth of empire: Arnold Bennett, modernism, and the menagerie; value: Monsters on the verandah of realism: Virginia Woolf's empire exhibition; value: The 'Anglepoised' novel after empire: English creatures and postcolonial exhibition.