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1 online resource (xii, 273 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction: Representing Victorian environmental nightmares / Laurence W. Mazzeno, Ronald D. Morrison -- Part I: At home. The assumption of the dragon: Ruskin's mythic vision / Sara Atwood -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning's failed pastoral and the environments of the poor / Mary Sanders Pollock -- Pip's nightmare and Orlick's dream / Allen MacDuffie -- Part II: Abroad. Frances Trollope's Domestic matters of the Americans and the ecogothic / Ronald D. Morrison -- James Thomson's deserts / John Miller -- "Tragic ring-barked forests" and the "wicked wood": Haunting environmental anxiety in late nineteenth-century Australian literature / Susan K. Martin -- "Rivers change like nations": Reading eco-apocalypse in The waters of Edera / Alicia Carroll -- Part III: Imagined landscapes. Disaster and deserts: Children's natural history as nightmare and dream / Naomi Wood -- Imperial ecologies and extinction in H.G. Well's island stories / Jade Munslow Ong -- Human intervention and more-than-human humanity in H.G. Well's The island of Doctor Moreau / Shun Yin Kiang -- Nowhere to go: Caught between nature and culture in Oscar Wilde's fairy tales / Susan M. Bernardo -- Ecocrisis and slow violence: Anthropocene readings of late-Victorian disaster narratives / Mark Frost -- Index |
| Summary |
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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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
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Nature in literature.
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Environmental protection in literature.
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Literature: history & criticism.
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Media studies.
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Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900.
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Literary Criticism -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Social Science -- Media Studies.
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English literature
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Environmental protection in literature
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Nature in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Mazzeno, Laurence W., editor.
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Morrison, Ronald D., editor.
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| ISBN |
3030140423 |
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9783030140427 |
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