LEADER 00000cam a2200901Ia 4500 001 ocn659560498 003 OCoLC 005 20190405013859.9 006 m o d 007 cr cnu---unuuu 008 100830s2010 enk ob 001 0 eng d 019 659283513|a665136960|a680618743|a712992580|a729016309 |a817925254|a963366820 020 9780511789564|q(electronic book) 020 0511789564|q(electronic book) 020 0511786964|q(electronic book) 020 9780511786969|q(electronic book) 020 9780521196550|q(Cloth) 020 0521196558|q(Cloth) 020 9780511762178|q(electronic book) 020 0511762178|q(electronic book) 024 8 9786612723575 024 8 40018325555 035 (OCoLC)659560498|z(OCoLC)659283513|z(OCoLC)665136960 |z(OCoLC)680618743|z(OCoLC)712992580|z(OCoLC)729016309 |z(OCoLC)817925254|z(OCoLC)963366820 037 272357|bMIL 040 N$T|beng|epn|cN$T|dYDXCP|dOCLCQ|dCDX|dE7B|dIDEBK|dREDDC |dCAMBR|dOCLCO|dOCLCA|dNLGGC|dOCLCQ|dYDX|dOCLCO|dOCLCQ |dOCLCA|dPIFAG|dWTU|dOCLCQ|dOCLCO|dWY@|dLUE|dOCLCF|dLND |dOCLCA|dINT|dOCLCQ|dOCLCO|dOCLCQ 043 e-uk--- 049 RIDW 050 4 PR6045.O72|bZ5375 2010eb 072 7 LIT|x004120|2bisacsh 072 7 D|2bicssc 082 04 823/.912|222 084 HM 4815|2rvk 090 PR6045.O72|bZ5375 2010eb 100 1 Alt, Christina,|d1976-|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/ names/no2007110132 245 10 Virginia Woolf and the study of nature /|cChristina Alt. 264 1 Cambridge ;|aNew York :|bCambridge University Press, |c2010. 300 1 online resource (ix, 229 pages) 336 text|btxt|2rdacontent 337 computer|bc|2rdamedia 338 online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 340 |gpolychrome|2rdacc 347 text file|2rdaft 504 Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Works by Virginia Woolf -- Work by Marie Carmichael (Stopes) -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 The natural history tradition -- Taxonomic natural history in the nineteenth century -- The popular practice of natural history -- Woolfs childhood encounter with natural history -- Chapter 2 The modern life sciences -- Darwinian controversies -- The rise of the new biology -- Protection and conservation -- The early protection movement -- The later protection movement -- The psychoanalytic interpretation of collection -- Twentieth- century developments -- Ethology -- Ecology -- Ecology as a science of control -- A co-operative ethic -- Woolfs observation of nature -- Chapter 3 8216;To pin through the body with a name: Virginia Woolf and the taxonomic tradition -- The origins of Woolfs response to taxonomic natural history -- Childhood and natural history in woolfs fiction -- Natural history and the Victorian age -- Collection -- Obsession, Possession, and Control in the voyage out -- Collection and Classification in jacobs room -- Identity formation in the waves -- Chapter 4 Laboratory coats and field-glasses: Virginia Woolf and the modern study of nature -- The new biology -- A room of ones own and the influence of Marie Stopes -- Woolf and the protection movement -- 8216;Miss Ormerod, applied entomology, and the protection movement -- Ethology -- The new naturalists -- The new naturalist in an old naturalist -- Ecology -- Chapter 5 Representing 8216;the manner of our seeing: Literary experimentation and scientific analogy -- Woolfs use of the analogies of collection and taxonomy -- Conceiving of an alternative -- Woolfs adoption of an alternative method -- Notes -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: The natural history tradition -- Chapter 2: The modern life sciences -- Chapter 3: 8216;To pin through the body with a name -- Chapter 4: Laboratory coats and field-glasses -- Chapter 5: Representing 8216;the manner of our seeing -- Bibliography -- Index. 520 "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 of the laboratory to ethology and ecology and illustrates how Woolf drew on the methods and objectives of the contemporary life sciences to describe her own literary experiments. 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