Ecological Form brings together leading voices in nineteenth-century ecocriticism to suture the lingering divide between postcolonial and ecocritical approaches. Together, these essays show how Victorian thinkers used aesthetic form to engage problems of system, interconnection, and dispossession that remain our own. The authors reconsider Victorian literary structures in light of environmental catastrophe; coordinate "natural" questions with sociopolitical ones; and underscore the category of form as a means for generating environmental-and therefore political-knowledge. Moving from the elegy…mehr
Ecological Form brings together leading voices in nineteenth-century ecocriticism to suture the lingering divide between postcolonial and ecocritical approaches. Together, these essays show how Victorian thinkers used aesthetic form to engage problems of system, interconnection, and dispossession that remain our own. The authors reconsider Victorian literary structures in light of environmental catastrophe; coordinate "natural" questions with sociopolitical ones; and underscore the category of form as a means for generating environmental-and therefore political-knowledge. Moving from the elegy and the industrial novel to the utopian romance, the scientific treatise, and beyond, Ecological Form demonstrates how nineteenth-century thinkers conceptualized the circuits of extraction and violence linking Britain to its global network. Yet the book's most pressing argument is that this past thought can be a resource for reimagining the present.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Karen Pinkus (Afterword By) Karen Pinkus is Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature at Cornell University. She is the author of Fuel: A Speculative Dictionary (2016), Alchemical Mercury: A Theory of Ambivalence (2009), The Montesi Scandal: The Death of Wilma Montesi and the Birth of the Paparazzi in Fellini's Rome (2003), Picturing Silence: Emblem, Language, Counter- Reformation Materiality (1996), and Bodily Regimes: Italian Advertising Under Fascism (1995). Nathan K. Hensley (Edited By) Nathan K. Hensley is Associate Professor of English at Georgetown University. He is the author of Forms of Empire: The Poetics of Victorian Sovereignty (2016). Philip Steer (Edited By) Philip Steer is Senior Lecturer in English at Massey University. His current book project is "Borders of Britishness: The Novel and Political Economy in the Victorian Settler Empire."
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction: Ecological Formalism; or, Love among the Ruins Nathan K. Hensley and Philip Steer, 1 Part I Method 1. Drama, Ecology, and the Ground of Empire: The Play of Indigo Sukanya Banerjee, 21 2. Mourning Species: In Memoriam in an Age of Extinction Jesse Oak Taylor, 42 3. Signatures of the Carboniferous: The Literary Forms of Coal Nathan K. Hensley and Philip Steer, 63 Part II Form 4. Fixed Capital and the Flow: Water Power, Steam Power, and The Mill on the Floss Elizabeth Carolyn Miller, 85 5. "Form Against Force": Sustainability and Organicism in the Work of John Ruskin Deanna K. Kreisel, 101 6. Mapping the "Invisible Region, Far Away" in Dombey and Son Adam Grener, 121 Part III Scale 7. How We Might Live: Utopian Ecology in William Morris and Samuel Butler Benjamin Morgan, 139 8. From Specimen to System: Botanical Scale and the Environmental Sublime in Joseph Dalton Hooker's Himalayas Lynn Voskuil, 161 9. "Infi nitesimal Lives": Thomas Hardy's Scale Effects Aaron Rosenberg, 182 Part IV Futures 10. Electric Dialectics: Delany's Atlantic Materialism Monique Allewaert, 203 11. Satire's Ecology Teresa Shewry, 223 Afterword: They Would Have Ended by Burning Their Own Globe Karen Pinkus, 241 Acknowledgments 249 List of Contributors 251 Index 253
Introduction: Ecological Formalism; or, Love among the Ruins Nathan K. Hensley and Philip Steer, 1 Part I Method 1. Drama, Ecology, and the Ground of Empire: The Play of Indigo Sukanya Banerjee, 21 2. Mourning Species: In Memoriam in an Age of Extinction Jesse Oak Taylor, 42 3. Signatures of the Carboniferous: The Literary Forms of Coal Nathan K. Hensley and Philip Steer, 63 Part II Form 4. Fixed Capital and the Flow: Water Power, Steam Power, and The Mill on the Floss Elizabeth Carolyn Miller, 85 5. "Form Against Force": Sustainability and Organicism in the Work of John Ruskin Deanna K. Kreisel, 101 6. Mapping the "Invisible Region, Far Away" in Dombey and Son Adam Grener, 121 Part III Scale 7. How We Might Live: Utopian Ecology in William Morris and Samuel Butler Benjamin Morgan, 139 8. From Specimen to System: Botanical Scale and the Environmental Sublime in Joseph Dalton Hooker's Himalayas Lynn Voskuil, 161 9. "Infi nitesimal Lives": Thomas Hardy's Scale Effects Aaron Rosenberg, 182 Part IV Futures 10. Electric Dialectics: Delany's Atlantic Materialism Monique Allewaert, 203 11. Satire's Ecology Teresa Shewry, 223 Afterword: They Would Have Ended by Burning Their Own Globe Karen Pinkus, 241 Acknowledgments 249 List of Contributors 251 Index 253
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