Modernist Life Histories: Biological Theory and the Experimental Bildungsroman

by Daniel Newman

Book Overview

Reflects contemporary paradigm shifts in embryology and evolutionary theory through formal experimentation in the modernist Bildungsroman
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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474439624
• ISBN13: 9781474439626
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"