Victorian Writers and the Environment

Ecocritical Perspectives

AvLaurence W. Mazzeno,Ronald D. Morrison

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

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Beskrivning

Applying ecocritical theory to the work of Victorian writers, this collection explores what a diversity of ecocritical approaches can offer students and scholars of Victorian literature, at the same time that it critiques the general effectiveness of ecocritical theory. Interdisciplinary in their approach, the essays take up questions related to the nonhuman, botany, landscape, evolutionary science, and religion. The contributors cast a wide net in terms of genre, analyzing novels, poetry, periodical works, botanical literature, life-writing, and essays. Focusing on a wide range of canonical and noncanonical writers, including Charles Dickens, the Brontes, John Ruskin, Christina Rossetti, Jane Webb Loudon, Anna Sewell, and Richard Jefferies, Victorian Writers and the Environment demonstrates the ways in which nineteenth-century authors engaged not only with humans’ interaction with the environment during the Victorian period, but also how some authors anticipated more recent attitudes toward the environment.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2019-07-05
Mått:156 x 234 x 17 mm
Vikt:500 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Among the Victorians and Modernists
Antal sidor:250
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9780367346447

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Laurence W. Mazzeno is President Emeritus at Alvernia University, USA. Ronald D. Morrison is Professor of English at Morehead State University, USA

Innehållsförteckning

Contents, List of Figures, Acknowledgements, Introduction Practical Ecocriticism and the Victorian TextLaurence W. Mazzeno, Alvernia University and Ronald D. Morrison, Morehead State UniversityChapter 1: Reading Nature: John Ruskin, Environment, and the Ecological ImpulseMark Frost, University of PortsmouthChapter 2: Between "bounded field" and "brooding star": A Study of Tennyson’s TopographyValerie Purton, Anglia Ruskin UniversityChapter 3: Celebration and Longing: Robert Browning and the Nonhuman WorldAshton Nichols, Dickinson CollegeChapter 4: "Truth to Nature": The Pleasures and Dangers of the Environment in Christina Rossetti’s PoetrySerena Trowbridge, Birmingham City UniversityChapter 5: The Zoocentric Ecology of Hardy’s Poetic ConsciousnessChristine Roth, University of Wisconsin OshkoshChapter 6: Early Dickens and Ecocriticism: The Social Novelist and the NonhumanTroy Boone, University of PittsburghChapter 7: Bleak Intra-Actions: Dickens, Turbulence, Material EcologyJohn Parham, University of WorcesterChapter 8: Dark Nature: A Critical Return to Brontë CountryDeirdre d’Albertis, Bard CollegeChapter 9: Anna Sewell’s Black Beauty: Reframing the Pastoral TraditionErin Bistline, Texas Tech UniversityChapter 10: The Environmental Politics and Aesthetics of Rider Haggard’s King Solomon’s Mines: Capital, Mourning and DesireJohn Miller, University of SheffieldChapter 11: Jane Loudon’s Wildflowers, Popular Science, and the Victorian Culture of KnowledgeMary Ellen Bellanca, University of South Carolina SumterChapter 12: Falling in Love with Seaweeds: The Seaside Environments of George Eliot and G.H. LewesAnna Feuerstein, University of Hawai’i at Manoa Chapter 13: Agriculture and Ecology in Richard Jefferies’s Hodge and His MastersRonald D. Morrison, Morehead State UniversityChapter 14: Edward Carpenter, Henry Salt, and the Animal Limits of Victorian EnvironmentsJed Mayer, SUNY at New PaltzSources for Further StudyEditors and Contributors Index