Fuel

An Ecocritical History

AvHeidi C. M. Scott,Greg Garrard

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

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This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.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.

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Utgivningsdatum:2020-01-23
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Vikt:458 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Environmental Cultures
Antal sidor:328
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781350146907

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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).

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Scott provides a wealth of source material about the history of fuels in their specific context, using a wide range of literary texts to underscore her factual information.

Innehållsförteckning

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 Fuels3. 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 Energy6. The Elements Movei. Breezeii. Flowiii. Stariv. AtomConclusionBibliographyIndex