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Literary Criticism General

Modernist Life Histories

Biological Theory and The Experimental Bildungsroman

by (author) Daniel Newman

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Initial publish date
Feb 2019
Category
General
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9781474439619
    Publish Date
    Feb 2019
    List Price
    $137.50

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Description

Modernist Life Histories explores how new models of embryonic development helped inspire new kinds of coming-of-age plots during the first half of the twentieth century. Focusing on novels by E. M. Forster, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Aldous Huxley and Samuel Beckett, the book links narrative experiments with shuffled chronology, repeated beginnings and sex change to new discoveries in the biological sciences. It also reveals new connections between the so-called Two Cultures by highlighting how scientific ideas and narratives enter the literary realm.

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Contributor Notes

Daniel Newman is Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Department of English at McGill University.