Beastly Journeys: Travel and Transformation at the Fin de Siècle

by Tim Youngs

Bats, beetles, wolves, butterflies, bulls, panthers, apes, leopards and spiders are among the countless creatures that crowd the pages of literature of the late nineteenth century. Whether in Gothic novels, science fiction, fantasy, fairy tales, journalism, political discourse, realism or naturalism, the line between the human and the animal becomes blurred. Beastly Journeys examines these bestial transformations across a range of well-known and less...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1846319587
• ISBN13: 9781846319587
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 225 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.4" x 9.3"