Victorian Environmental Nightmares

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Mazzeno, Laurence W. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Morrison, Ronald D. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2019.
• Θέματα: Literature, Modern-19th century.; British literature.; Communication.; Environmental sciences.; Nineteenth-Century Literature.; British and Irish Literature.; Environmental Communication.

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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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".