Name: Victorian Literature, Energy, and the Ecological Imagination (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture)
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Author: Allen Macduffie
ISBN: 9781107064379

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Victorian Literature, Energy, and the Ecological Imagination (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture)

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Physical Book

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Author

Allen Macduffie

Year

2014

Language

English

Pages

319

Format

Hardcover

ISBN13

9781107064379

Synopsis "Victorian Literature, Energy, and the Ecological Imagination (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture) "

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.

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