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Animal Studies
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Insects
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- ISBN 9781474458207
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 03 Mar 2022
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Focusing on the writing of Wyndham Lewis, D. H. Lawrence, H.D. and Samuel Beckett, this book uncovers a shared fascination with the aesthetic possibilities of the insect body its adaptive powers, distinct stages of growth and swarming formations. Through a series of close readings, it proposes that the figure of the exoskeleton, which functions both as a protective outer layer and as a site of encounter, can enhance our understanding of modernism's engagement with nonhuman life, as well as its questioning of the boundaries of the human.
Rachel Murray is lecturer in English at Loughborough University. She is the author of several book chapters and articles in refereed journals including ‘Insects in Language and Literature’, A Cultural History of Insects, eds. Gene Kritsky, Vazrick Nasari (Bloomsbury, 2019); ‘Beelines: Joyce’s Apian Aesthetics’, Humanities Special Issue: James Joyce, Animals, and the Non Human, Vol. 6, No. 2 (June 2017), pp. 1-14 and ‘Vermicular Origins: The Creative Evolution of Samuel Beckett’s Worm’ [Winner of the 2016 BSLS/JLS Early Career Essay Prize], Journal of Literature and Science, Vol. 9, No. 2 (2016), pp. 19-35.
