TY  - BOOK
AU  - Koenigsberger,Kurt
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - The Novel and the Menagerie : : Totality, Englishness, and Empire / 
SN  - 9780814272282
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Columbus
PB  - Ohio State University Press
KW  - Engelsk litteratur
KW  - historia
KW  - 1900-talet
KW  - sao
KW  - 1800-talet
KW  - Nationell identitet i litteraturen
KW  - Nationalkaraktär i litteraturen
KW  - Whole and parts (Philosophy) in literature
KW  - fast
KW  - Social institutions in literature
KW  - National characteristics, English, in literature
KW  - Literature and society
KW  - Imperialism in literature
KW  - Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature
KW  - English fiction
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Imperialisme dans la litterature
KW  - Institutions sociales dans la litterature
KW  - Litterature et societe
KW  - Grande-Bretagne
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 20e siecle
KW  - 19e siecle
KW  - Identite dans la litterature
KW  - Anglais dans la litterature
KW  - Roman anglais
KW  - Histoire et critique
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - 19th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - The novel as zoo: animal stories and English style -- Picturing Britannia's menagerie: the aesthetics of the imperial whole -- Circuses in cabinets: the Victorian novelist as beast tamer -- Elephants in the labyrinth of empire: Arnold Bennett, modernism, and the menagerie -- Monsters on the verandah of realism: Virginia Woolf's empire exhibition -- The "Anglepoised" novel after empire: English creatures and postcolonial exhibition -- Small islands, frozen arks; Open Access
N2  - "The first comprehensive account of the relation of collections of imperial beasts to narrative practices in England, The Novel and the Menagerie explores an array of imaginative responses to the empire as a dominant, shaping factor in English daily life. Kurt Koenigsberger argues that domestic English novels and collections of zoological exotica (especially zoos, circuses, traveling menageries, and colonial and imperial exhibitions) share important aesthetic strategies and cultural logics: novels about English daily life and displays featuring collections of exotic animals both strive to relate Englishness to a larger empire conceived as an integrated whole." "Koenigsberger's investigations range from readings of novels by authors such as Charles Dickens, Virginia Woolf, Salman Rushdie, and Angela Carter to analyses of ballads, handbills, broadsides, and memoirs of showmen. Attending closely to the collective English practices of imagining and delineating the empire as a whole, The Novel and the Menagerie works at the juncture of literary criticism, colonial discourse studies, and cultural analysis to historicize the notion of totality in the theory and practice of the English novel. In exploring the shapes of the novel in England and of the English institutions that collected exotic animals, it offers fresh readings of familiar literary texts and opens up new ways of understanding the character of imperial Englishness across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries."--Jacket
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/28039/
ER  -