Flush: A Biography Contributor(s): Woolf, Virginia (Author) |
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ISBN: 1618952951 ISBN-13: 9781618952950 Publisher: Bibliotech Press OUR PRICE: $22.75 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2018 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Biography & Autobiography - Literary Collections |
Dewey: FIC |
Lexile Measure: 940 |
Physical Information: 0.44" H x 6" W x 9" (0.76 lbs) 126 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Woolf's best-selling spoof biography of the poet Elizabeth Barrett-Browning's lap dog, Flush, has until recently received relatively little serious critical attention. Flush: A Biography has been read as an allegory of class war, lesbian love, the plight of women writers, and much else besides. In the context of the recent rise in animal studies, this work is ripe for reappraisal. The present essay argues for the novel's significant contribution to the understanding, in Woolf's era and our own, of pressing questions concerning animality in relation to writing, gender and feminism. Woolf's 'little brown dog' speaks to some notorious feminist antivivisectionist cultural works and political interventions in the first decades of the twentieth-century as well as to more recent feminist philosophical interests in animality, and canine animality in particular. (Wiley Online library) |