Virginia Woolf and the study of nature /
"Reflecting the modernist fascination with science, Virginia Woolf's representations of nature are informed by a wide-ranging interest in contemporary developments in the life sciences. Christina Alt analyses Woolf's responses to disciplines ranging from taxonomy and the new biology o...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2010.
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1. The natural history tradition; 2. The modern life sciences; 3. 'To pin through the body with a name': Virginia Woolf and the taxonomic tradition; 4. Laboratory coats and field glasses: Virginia Woolf and the modern study of nature; 5. Representing 'the manner of our seeing': literary experimentation and scientific analogy; Bibliography; Notes.