Allen Macduffie

Victorian Literature, Energy, and the Ecological Imagination

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores how Victorian fiction helped create an environmental consciousness by articulating questions about sustainable energy use.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 624g
• ISBN-13: 9781107064379
• ISBN-10: 1107064376
• Artikelnr.: 40566084

Autorenporträt

Allen MacDuffie is Assistant Professor in the English Department at the University of Texas, Austin.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: limited environments, fictions of escape
Part I. Thermodynamics and its Discontents: 1. The city and the sun
2. The death of the sun at the dawn of the Anthropocene
Part II. Unsustainable Fictions: 3. Energy systems and narrative systems in Charles Dickens's Bleak House
4. The renewable energies of Our Mutual Friend
5. John Ruskin's alternative energy
6. Personal fantasy, natural limits: Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
7. Joseph Conrad: energy, entropy, and the fictions of empire
8. Evolutionary energy and the future: Henry Maudsley and H. G. Wells
Bibliography.