{"product_id":"the-novel-and-the-menagerie-kurt-koenigsberger-9780814257340","title":"The Novel and the Menagerie: Totality, Englishness, and Empire","description":"The first comprehensive account of the relation of collections of imperial beasts to narrative practices in England, \u003ci\u003eThe Novel and the Menagerie\u003c\/i\u003e explores an array of imaginative responses to the empire as a dominant, shaping factor in English daily life. Kurt Koenigsberger argues that domestic English novels and collections of zoological exotica (especially zoos, circuses, traveling menageries, and colonial and imperial exhibitions) share important aesthetic strategies and cultural logics: novels about English daily life and displays featuring collections of exotic animals both strive to relate Englishness to a larger empire conceived as an integrated whole. Koenigsberger's investigations range from readings of novels by authors such as Charles Dickens, Virginia Woolf, Salman Rushdie, and Angela Carter to analyses of ballads, handbills, broadsides, and memoirs of showmen. Attending closely to the collective English practices of imagining and delineating the empire as a whole, \u003ci\u003eThe Novel and the Menagerie\u003c\/i\u003e works at the juncture of literary criticism, colonial discourse studies, and cultural analysis to historicize the notion of totality in the theory and practice of the English novel. In exploring the shapes of the novel in England and of the English institutions that collected exotic animals, it offers fresh readings of familiar literary texts and opens up new ways of understanding the character of imperial Englishness across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kurt Koenigsberger\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0814257348\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814257340\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ohio State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/29\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.96lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.67d","brand":"Kurt Koenigsberger","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48435703120127,"sku":"9780814257340","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4ea4f81b-031b-458d-a1a7-a286ed494e4c.jpg?v=1777152137","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-novel-and-the-menagerie-kurt-koenigsberger-9780814257340","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}