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Fuel: An Ecocritical History de Dr Heidi C. M. Scott

Fuel: An Ecocritical History: Environmental Cultures

Autor Dr Heidi C. M. Scott
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 22 ian 2020
Fuel: An Ecocritical Historyis the first book to chart our changing attitudes to fuel and energy through the literature and culture of the modern era, focusing on the 18th-century to the present. Reading a wide range of writers from Blake, Austen and Dickens to Upton Sinclair and Edward Abbey, Heidi Scott explores how our move from a pre-industrial reliance on biomass and elemental energy sources to our current dependence on the fossil fuels of coal, oil and natural gas have fundamentally shaped human identity and culture. The book's Anthropocene perspective reshapes our view of energy history and climate change, andFuellooks forward to ways in which we can reimagine our culture away from the fossil fuel paradigm towards a more sustainable energy future driven by renewable, elemental energy.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781350146907
ISBN-10: 1350146900
Pagini: 328
Ilustrații: 14 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Seria Environmental Cultures

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Draws on interdisciplinary perspectives from ecocritical literary theory to ecology, history and sociology

Notă biografică

Heidi C. M. Scott is Lecturer in English at the University of Maryland, USA. She is the author of Chaos and Cosmos: Literary Origins of Modern Ecology in the British Nineteenth Century (2014).

Cuprins

Introductioni. New York City to Albanyii. Fuel Historyiii. Defining Fueliv. Energy Ontologyv. The Arc of FuelPart One: Biomass Fuels 1. Grass: Muscles Powered i. The Country: The Past-ness of the Pastoralii. The City: Crosstown Trafficiii. In Depth: Black Beautyiv. Borderline Biomass: Peat and Whale Oil2. Wood: Forests' Firesi. Burning to Surviveii. The Hospitable Blaze iii. In Depth: Jane AustenPart Two: Fossil Fuels 3. King Coal i. Workhouse Workhorseii. The Big Smoke and Auld Reekieiii. In Depth: Wuthering Heights and How Green Was My Valleyiv. Do the Locomotionv. Horizon Gone: Mountaintop Removal Mining4. Black Goldi. Oil Ontologyii. Gusher Gawkersiii. Road Trip!iv. Oil's Localesv. Pastoral Oilfields: The Suburbsvi. A Note on Natural Gas5. Interlude: Human FoodPart Three: Primary Energy 6. The Elements Movei. Breezeii. Flowiii. Stariv. AtomConclusionBibliographyIndex

Recenzii

This scholarly and highly informative work deals with the various material cultures of the fuels that supply our basic energy needs, including biomass, fossil fuels, and primary renewable natural resources . Scott, a literature professor at the University of Maryland, brings a unique historical and literary approach to her topic. She incorporates analysis of such writers as Jane Austen and Charles Dickens to make a compelling case for the emerging discipline of energy humanities or energy ontology, which explores the shifts in human culture that have resulted from changing energy sources dating from the brink of industrialization to the present day. This book is unique in exploring a new interdisciplinary field that broadly considers human history, its evolution, and humanity's prospects for future survival. Summing Up: Recommended.
Heidi Scott's important, wide ranging survey of anglophone literary production offers its title term as a fundamental determinant for cultural life. rich, variegated, and unfailingly intelligent . The elasticity of its approach to its primary texts, the generosity of its citation of prior work, and its solid organization all mean that it functions not just as a freestanding contribution in its own right, but as a kind of repository for other, future projects, an archive of possible critical production. In this sense Fuel will drive new work as though by a kind of hidden locomotive power, a generative capacity that we might as well call potential energy.
Indeed, an unfolding story of narrative agencies and natures/cultures is that of fuel. Heidi C. M. Scott's monograph ... contributes distinctively to burgeoning studies of petrocultures within the energy humanities, an interdisciplinary field focused on energy-society interconnections ... The monograph's accessible style will speak to a range of environmental audiences, from students to specialists.

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Fuel: An Ecocritical History is the first book to chart our changing attitudes to fuel and energy through the literature and culture of the modern era, focusing on the 18th-century to the present. Reading a wide range of writers from Blake, Austen and Dickens to Upton Sinclair and Edward Abbey, Heidi Scott explores how our move from a pre-industrial reliance on biomass and elemental energy sources to our current dependence on the fossil fuels of coal, oil and natural gas have fundamentally shaped human identity and culture. The book's Anthropocene perspective reshapes our view of energy history and climate change, and Fuel looks forward to ways in which we can reimagine our culture away from the fossil fuel paradigm towards a more sustainable energy future driven by renewable, elemental energy.