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Woolf, Bergson, and the Sciences explores the use of animals in Woolf's novels, alongside the writing of philosopher, Henri Bergson, and relevant science and nature writers. Since Woolf and Bergson are both deeply engaged with the science of their time, they are read in the context of writings by a wide range of scientists, including Charles Darwin; his protégé George Romanes; evolutionary theory's vociferous champion, T. H. Huxley; Huxley's students, comparative psychologist Conwy Lloyd Morgan and novelist H. G. Wells; social scientists, who drew on evolutionary theory, such as William McDougall and Wilfred Trotter; and physiologists Julian Huxley and J. B. S. Haldane, both accomplished popularisers. The book also juxtaposes Woolf with contemporary literary writers to assess degrees of alignment and divergence, with the further aim of gaining insights into the complexity of responses to animal issues. To this purpose, it includes discussions on writings by, among others, H. G. Wells, Wilfred Owen, Leonard Woolf, Naomi Mitchison, David Garnet, Mary Butts, and John Buchan. This monograph is for scholars and postgraduate students interested in and researching Virginia Woolf, Henri Bergson, modernism, science and literature, and animal studies.
Contents
1 Introduction
Woolf and Bergson's Philosophy
Woolf and the Life Sciences
The Multidisciplinary Menagerie
2 Animal Presences in the Voyage Out
Instinct, Intelligence and Morality
Animal Perspectives and Languages
Beastly Humanity
Animal Intrusions
Animals and Their Advocates
3 Inter-Species Sympathy in Night and Day
Rooks and Ralph Denham's Characterisation
Nonhuman Referents
The Zoo as Setting
Leonard Woolf as Ralph Denham
Bergsonian Love
4 War, Instinct and Suggestibility: The Humanimal in Mrs Dalloway
The Brute: T. H. Huxley's Evolution and Ethics (1893)
Suggestibility: Instincts of the Herd in Peace and War (1916)
Monster: Sin and the Secret Self
Biomechanical Monsters and a Hybrid Future
Animals, Racism and Humaness
5 Flush, Freedom, and Animal Space-Time
Evolution and Freedom: Mary Butts, Henri Bergson, and Julian Huxley
Viginia Woolf's Flush: A Biography (1933)
'The Dog as a Simple Man': Wells, Huxley, and Morgan
Conwy Lloyd Morgan's 'Blackie'
Animal Space Time: Mary Butts, Henri Bergson and John Buchan
6 Concluding Remarks
Literature and Science
Animal Welfare
Popular Science
