Caroline Hovanec, Animal Subjects
Literature, Zoology, and British Modernism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6148927 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Zoe J Hughes (0000-0003-0702-3478, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 261-266 |
| Publication date | 2020-09-10 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Humanimalia (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2151-8645 • E-ISSN: 2151-8645 |
| Publisher | Humanimalia, Utrecht University (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.52537/humanimalia.9448 |
| OpenAlex | W4241840108 |
| Language | EN |
s debut book, Animal Subjects, opens with a review of the 1924 London Aquarium by then "up-and-coming writer" Virginia Woolf (1).Hovanec sees this review as an emblematic example of the close relation between literature and science in the heyday of Darwin, when subjectivity was less begrudgingly extended to nonhuman animals.In a provocative introduction, she eschews the pervasive "'two cultures' narrative" --the idea that, by the twentieth century, "the sciences and arts had
Art · Art history · Biology · Modernism (music · Zoology · Diverse Historical and Scientific Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History of Science and Medicine
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |