Victorian Literature, Energy, and the Ecological Imagination Victorian Literature, Energy, and the Ecological Imagination

Victorian Literature, Energy, and the Ecological Imagination

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Publisher Description

Reading Victorian literature and science in tandem, Victorian Literature, Energy, and the Ecological Imagination investigates how the concept of energy was fictionalized - both mystified and demystified - during the rise of a new resource-intensive industrial and economic order. The first extended study of a burgeoning area of critical interest of increasing importance to twenty-first century scholarship, it anchors its investigation at the very roots of the energy problem, in a period that first articulated questions about sustainability, the limits to growth, and the implications of energy pollution for the entire global environment. With chapters on Charles Dickens, John Ruskin, Robert Louis Stevenson, Joseph Conrad and H. G. Wells, Allen MacDuffie discusses the representation of urban environments in the literary imaginary, and how those texts helped reveal the gap between cultural fantasies of unbounded energy generation, and the material limits imposed by nature.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2014
May 31
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
534
Pages
PUBLISHER
Cambridge University Press
SELLER
Cambridge University Press
SIZE
2.2
MB
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