Victorian environmental nightmares

Victorian environmental nightmares

by Mazzeno, Laurence W. Morrison, Ronald D.

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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 indust…

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Victorian environmental nightmares / Laurence W. Mazzeno, Ronald D. Morrison, editors.

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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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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2019

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Palgrave Macmillan
  • Place of Publication:Cham, Switzerland
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2019

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (xii, 273 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:3030140423, 9783030140427
  • oclc:on1101032157
  • LC Classification:PR143
  • Dewey Decimal:820.9/36

Subjects

Criticism, interpretation, etc English Literature English literature -- History and criti… Environmental protection in literature Environnement -- Protection, dans la li… LITERARY CRITICISM -- European Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Literature: history & criticism Littérature anglaise -- Histoire et cri… Media studies Nature dans la littérature Nature in literature SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Media Studies

Writers

Mazzeno, Laurence W. Morrison, Ronald D.

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