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Subject(s)

• English literature—19th century—History and criticism [Browse]
• Ecology in literature [Browse]
• Environmental literature—Great Britain—History and criticism [Browse]

Editor

Denisoff, Dennis, 1961- [Browse]

Denisoff, Dennis, 1961- [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Literary criticism [Browse]

Summary note

"The Victorians invented environmentalism but struggled with their human-centred perspectives and values. This collection of essays on 19th-century literature and environmental history introduces readers to the ways in which their struggles, insights, and innovations may shed revealing light on the state of environmentalism today"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents

• Novel geologies : Victorian fiction in catastrophic times / Jesse Oak Taylor
• Ecogothic : Dislocations of scale / Roger Luckhurst
• Entropy, exhaustion, and degeneration in science fiction and decadence / Benjamin Morgan
• Blue ecologies / Cannon Schmitt
• Aesthetic form and global systems / Nathan K. Hensley
• Agricultural ecologies / Grace Moore
• Empire, environment, and botanical art in British India / Lindsay Wells
• The agricultural roots of realism : Lal Behari Day's Govinda Samanta / Sukanya Banerjee
• British values, indigenous knowledge, and settler colonial environments / Philip Steer
• Floral poetics / Catherine Maxwell
• Vegetal ontology in Emily Dickinson's poetic herbarium / Michael Marder
• Queer ecology and the animal in Walter Pater and William Sharp / Dennis Denisoff
• Plant agency / Elizabeth Chang
• "A little in the mining way" : Victorian literatures of extraction / Elizabeth Carolyn Miller
• The Victorian Capitalocene : Olive Schreiner on the frontier / Ella Mershon
• The art of extinction : Naturalizing colonization and Walter Buller's A History of the Birds of New Zealand*/ Wendy Parkins
• Land use : The farm, the common and the wild / Carolyn Lesjak
• Pollution / Allen MacDuffie
• Art and environment / Kate Flint
• Climate and empire / Adeline Johns-Putra
• The uncomfortable commons in Lewis Carroll and William Morris / Barbara Leckie
• Form and activism / Caroline Levine.

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ISBN

• 1-009-41283-3
• 1-009-41286-8

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