Victorian Environmental Nightmares
Editat de Laurence W. Mazzeno, Ronald D. Morrisonen Limba Engleză Hardback – 15 mai 2019
The twelve essays in Victorian Environmental Nightmares explore various “environmental nightmares” through applied analyses of Victorian texts. Over the course of the nineteenth century, writers of imaginative literature often expressed fears and concerns over environmental degradation (in its wide variety of meanings, including social and moral). In some instances, natural or environmental disasters influenced these responses; in other instances a growing awareness of problems caused by industrial pollution and the growth of cities prompted responses. Seven essays in this volume cover works about Britain and its current and former colonies that examine these nightmare environments at home and abroad. But as the remaining five essays in this collection demonstrate, “environmental nightmares” are not restricted to essays on actual disasters or realistic fiction, since in many cases Victorian writers projected onto imperial landscapes or wholly imagined landscapes in fantastic fiction their anxieties about how humans might change their environments—and how these environments might also change humans.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9783030140410
ISBN-10: 3030140415
Pagini: 311
Ilustrații: XII, 273 p. 4 illus.
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 mm
Greutate: 0.49 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2019
Editura: Springer International Publishing
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland
ISBN-10: 3030140415
Pagini: 311
Ilustrații: XII, 273 p. 4 illus.
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 mm
Greutate: 0.49 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2019
Editura: Springer International Publishing
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland
Cuprins
1. Introduction.- 2. Sara Atwood, “The Assumption of the Dragon: Ruskin’s Mythic Vision”.- 3. Mary Sanders Pollock, “Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Failed Pastoral and the Environments of the Poor”.- 4. Allen MacDuffie, “Pip’s Nightmare and Orlick’s Dream”.- 5. Ronald D. Morrison, “Frances Trollope’s Domestic Manners of the Americans and the EcoGothic”.- 6. John Miller, “James Thomson’s Deserts”.- 7. Susan K. Martin, “‘Tragic ring-barked forests’ and the ‘Wicked Wood’: Haunting Environmental Anxiety in Late Nineteenth-Century Australian Literature”.- 8. Alicia Carroll, “‘Rivers Change like Nations’: Reading Eco-Apocalypse in The Waters of Edera”.- 9. Naomi Wood, “Disaster and Deserts: Children’s Natural History as Nightmare and Dream”.- 10. Jade Munslow Ong, “Imperial Ecologies and Extinction in H. G. Wells’s Island Stories”.- 11. Shun Kiang, “Human Intervention and More-Than-Human Humanity in H. G. Wells’s The Island of Doctor Moreau”.- 12.Susan M. Bernardo, “Nowhere to Go: Caught Between Nature and Culture in Oscar Wilde’s Fairy Tales”.- 13. Mark Frost, “Ecocrisis and Slow Violence: Anthropocene Readings of Late-Victorian Disaster Narratives”.
Recenzii
“The collection is an important intervention in Victorian environmental criticism and one of the first full-length works to address this subject. … Overall, the collection succeeds in providing a fresh direction for Victorian ecocriticism, suggesting several pathways for new work in the field … . In itself, it is a valuable resource for all scholars interested in nineteenth-century understandings of the world beyond the human animal.” (Ailise Bulfin, Victorian Studies, Vol. 63 (3), 2021)
Notă biografică
Laurence W. Mazzeno is President Emeritus of Alvernia University in Reading, Pennsylvania, USA.
Ronald D. Morrison is Professor of English at Morehead State University in Morehead, Kentucky, USA.
Caracteristici
Takes a broad view of the term "environmental nightmares" as opposed to simply restricting it to essays on actual natural disasters Examines work from authors as diverse as H.G. Wells and Elizabeth Barrett Browning Interrogates the nature of what constitutes a major/minor text by foregrounding natural and created environments