Bloomsbury's beasts: the presence of animals in the texts and lives of Bloomsbury.(group of artists and scholars)(Critical essay)

Yearbook of English Studies | January 1, 2007| | Copyright

ABSTRACT

The small but meaningful presence of animals in writings by major Bloomsbury figures Virginia and Leonard Woolf and E. M. Forster signals a number of covert presences in these authors' texts and lives. They embody partially repressed individual emotions or desires, unresolved social issues, and a sense of mystical and cosmic sacredness and interspecies relationality that secular Bloomsbury overtly rejected. The presence of these animals can thus be aligned with Julia Kristeva's idea of the abject and Helene Cixous's concept of the 'abominable'--unstable ...

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