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  title info:
    title: Victorian Environmental Nightmares
  name:
    name part: Mazzeno, Laurence W.
    role:
      role term: editor.
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      role term: edt
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  name:
    name part: Morrison, Ronald D.
    role:
      role term: editor.
    role:
      role term: edt
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      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2019
    edition: 1st ed. 2019.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XII, 273 p. 4 illus. online resource.
  abstract: 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. .
  table of contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. Sara Atwood, "The Assumption of the Dragon: Ruskin's Mythic Vision" -- 3. Mary Sanders Pollock, "Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Failed Pastoral and the Environments of the Poor" -- 4. Allen MacDuffie, "Pip's Nightmare and Orlick's Dream" -- 5. Ronald D. Morrison, "Frances Trollope's Domestic Manners of the Americans and the EcoGothic" -- 6. John Miller, "James Thomson's Deserts" -- 7. Susan K. Martin, "'Tragic ring-barked forests' and the 'Wicked Wood': Haunting Environmental Anxiety in Late Nineteenth-Century Australian Literature" -- 8. Alicia Carroll, "'Rivers Change like Nations': Reading Eco-Apocalypse in The Waters of Edera" -- 9. Naomi Wood, "Disaster and Deserts: Children's Natural History as Nightmare and Dream" -- 10. Jade Munslow Ong, "Imperial Ecologies and Extinction in H. G. Wells's Island Stories" -- 11. Shun Kiang, "Human Intervention and More-Than-Human Humanity in H. G. Wells's The Island of Doctor Moreau" -- 12. Susan M. Bernardo, "Nowhere to Go: Caught Between Nature and Culture in Oscar Wilde's Fairy Tales" -- 13. Mark Frost, "Ecocrisis and Slow Violence: Anthropocene Readings of Late-Victorian Disaster Narratives".
  note: edited by Laurence W. Mazzeno, Ronald D. Morrison.
  subject:
    topic: Literature, Modern-19th century
  subject:
    topic: British literature
  subject:
    topic: Communication
  subject:
    topic: Environmental sciences
  subject:
    topic: Nineteenth-Century Literature
  subject:
    topic: British and Irish Literature
  subject:
    topic: Environmental Communication
  classification: PN760.5-769
  classification: 809.034
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783030140427
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14042-7
  record info:
    record creation date: 190506
    record change date: 20191023121935.0
    record identifier: 978-3-030-14042-7