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Woolf, Bergson and the Sciences: Modernist Animals: Among the Victorians and Modernists

Autor Candice Kent
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 25 feb 2026
Woolf, Bergson, and the Sciences explores the use of animals in Woolf’s novels, alongside the writing of philosopher, Henri Bergson, and relevant science and nature writers. Since Woolf and Bergson are both deeply engaged with the science of their time, they are read in the context of writings by a wide range of scientists, including Charles Darwin; his protégé George Romanes; evolutionary theory’s vociferous champion, T. H. Huxley; Huxley’s students, comparative psychologist Conwy Lloyd Morgan and novelist H. G. Wells; social scientists, who drew on evolutionary theory, such as William McDougall and Wilfred Trotter; and physiologists Julian Huxley and J. B. S. Haldane, both accomplished popularisers. The book also juxtaposes Woolf with contemporary literary writers to assess degrees of alignment and divergence, with the further aim of gaining insights into the complexity of responses to animal issues. To this purpose, it includes discussions on writings by, among others, H. G. Wells, Wilfred Owen, Leonard Woolf, Naomi Mitchison, David Garnet, Mary Butts, and John Buchan. This monograph is for scholars and postgraduate students interested in and researching Virginia Woolf, Henri Bergson, modernism, science and literature, and animal studies.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781041049890
ISBN-10: 1041049897
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.49 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
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Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Academic and Postgraduate

Cuprins

1          Introduction 
Woolf and Bergson’s Philosophy      
Woolf and the Life Sciences 
The Multidisciplinary Menagerie     
 
2          Animal Presences in the Voyage Out        
Instinct, Intelligence and Morality    
Animal Perspectives and Languages 
Beastly Humanity      
Animal Intrusions      
Animals and Their Advocates
 
3          Inter-Species Sympathy in Night and Day
Rooks and Ralph Denham’s Characterisation          
Nonhuman Referents 
The Zoo as Setting    
Leonard Woolf as Ralph Denham     
Bergsonian Love
           
4          War, Instinct and Suggestibility: The Humanimal in Mrs Dalloway    
The Brute:  T. H. Huxley’s Evolution and Ethics (1893)     
Suggestibility:  Instincts of the Herd in Peace and War (1916)        
Monster:  Sin and the Secret Self      
Biomechanical Monsters and a Hybrid Future          
Animals, Racism and Humaness       
 
5          Flush, Freedom, and Animal Space-Time
Evolution and Freedom:  Mary Butts, Henri Bergson, and Julian Huxley           
Viginia Woolf’s Flush: A Biography (1933)
‘The Dog as a Simple Man’:  Wells, Huxley, and Morgan   
Conwy Lloyd Morgan’s ‘Blackie’    
Animal Space Time:  Mary Butts, Henri Bergson and John Buchan
 
6          Concluding Remarks           
Literature and Science           
Animal Welfare         
Popular Science

Notă biografică

Candice Kent is an independent scholar with a PhD in English from the University of Cambridge.

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Woolf, Bergson, and the Life Sciences explores the use of animals in Woolf’s novels, alongside the writing of philosopher, Henri Bergson, and relevant science and nature writers.