Canis Modernis: Human/Dog Coevolution in Modernist Literature

by Karalyn Kendall-Morwick

Book Overview

Modernist literature might well be accused of going to the dogs. From the strays wandering the streets of Dublin in James Joyce's Ulysses to the highbred canine subject of Virginia Woolf's Flush, dogs populate a range of modernist texts. In many ways, the dog in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries became a potent symbol of the modern condition--facing, like the human species, the problem of adapting to modernizing forces...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271088036
• ISBN13: 9780271088037
• Release Date: December 2022
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"