{"product_id":"beastly-modernisms-the-figure-of-the-animal-in-modernist-literature-and-culture-9781474498029","title":"Beastly Modernisms: The Figure of the Animal in Modernist Literature and Culture","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe intersection of modernist studies and critical animal studies is a new, progressive field that raises crucial questions about what it means to live with animals in modernity. \u003ci\u003eBeastly Modernisms \u003c\/i\u003egathers essays from leading figures in the field alongside emerging scholars who, together, revisit canonical figures and decentre the canons and geographies of modernism. Grounded in interdisciplinary approaches, the contributions work with cultural history and theoretical frameworks to unearth the multispecies dynamics of twentieth-century literature and culture. \u003cbr\u003eThe chapters in \u003ci\u003eBeastly Modernisms\u003c\/i\u003e present a diverse range of approaches and topics, exploring dogs in Virginia Woolf to Republican China, animals and gender in surrealism to African-American texts, S?mi reindeer to rat propaganda, modernist jellyfish to metamodernist beasts, 1940s poetry to Indian Partition stories, charting the current and future state of modernist animal studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlex Goody is Professor of Twentieth-Century Literature \u0026amp; Culture at Oxford Brookes University, UK. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eGender, Leisure Technology and Modernist Poetry: Machine Amusements\u003c\/i\u003e (2019), \u003ci\u003eTechnology, Literature and Culture\u003c\/i\u003e (2011) and \u003ci\u003eModernist Articulations: a cultural study of Djuna Barnes, Mina Loy and Gertrude Stein\u003c\/i\u003e (2007), and co-editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Edinburgh Companion to Modernism and Technology\u003c\/i\u003e (2022), \u003ci\u003eReading Westworld\u003c\/i\u003e (2019) and \u003ci\u003eAmerican Modernism: Cultural Transactions\u003c\/i\u003e (2009). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSaskia McCracken completed her PhD on Virginia Woolf's Darwinian animal tropes at the University of Glasgow. Her research has been published in \u003ci\u003eThe Modern Short Story and Magazine Culture: 1880-1950\u003c\/i\u003e (2021), \u003ci\u003eModernism\/Modernity: Reading Modernism in the Sixth Extinction\u003c\/i\u003e (2022), \u003ci\u003eAnimal Satire\u003c\/i\u003e (2022), \u003ci\u003eCrossing Borders: Transnational Modernism Beyond the Human, and Virginia Woolf and the Anthropocene\u003c\/i\u003e. She also transcribed the first manuscript draft of \u003ci\u003eFlush: A Biography\u003c\/i\u003e for the Cambridge edition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Edinburgh University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50454007415058,"sku":"9781474498029","price":167.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d5a9ca8b-30ee-465f-ac48-d88a35642fcc.jpg?v=1729860422","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/beastly-modernisms-the-figure-of-the-animal-in-modernist-literature-and-culture-9781474498029","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}