Beschreibung:
Caroline Hovanec earned her Ph.D. in English from Vanderbilt University, Tennessee, where she won the Edgar Hill Duncan Award for academic achievement. She is Assistant Professor of English and Writing at the University of Tampa; her research interests include modernism, literature and science, environmental humanities, and contemporary literature. She has published essays on aestheticism and science fiction, the melting of glaciers, and the 1918 influenza pandemic. She is member of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA) and the Modernist Studies Association (MSA).
Animal Subjects finds a new understanding of animal life in the literature and science of the early twentieth century.
Introduction; Animal subjectivity: Darwin, Freud, James; 1. H. G. Wells, Charles Elton, and the struggle for existence; 2. Aldous Huxley, Eliot Howard, and the observational ethic; 3. Romantic ethologies: D. H. Lawrence and Julian Huxley; 4. Bloomsbury's comparative psychology: Bertrand Russell, Julian Huxley, J. B. S. Haldane, Virginia Woolf; Conclusion.