Modernist Life Histories: Biological Theory and the Experimental Bildungsroman (Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernist Culture)

by Daniel Newman (Author), NewmanDaniela (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2018

  $141.83

  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.