@book{e0df20b2632846ea939fc8ec7c214b47,
title = "The Modernist Exoskeleton: Insects, War, Literary Form",
abstract = "Focusing on the writing of Wyndham Lewis, D. H. Lawrence, H.D. and Samuel Beckett, this book uncovers a shared fascination with the aesthetic possibilities of the insect body – its adaptive powers, distinct stages of growth and swarming formations. Through a series of close readings, it proposes that the figure of the exoskeleton, which functions both as a protective outer layer and as a site of encounter, can enhance our understanding of modernism{\textquoteright}s engagement with nonhuman life, as well as its questioning of the boundaries of the human.",
keywords = "modernism, insects, war, form, aesthetics, entomology",
author = "Rachel Murray",
year = "2020",
month = apr,
day = "1",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781474458191",
series = "Critical Studies in Modernist Culture",
publisher = "Edinburgh University Press",
address = "United Kingdom",
}