Energy, ecocriticism, and nineteenth-century fiction : novel ecologies / Barri J. Gold.
2021
PR468.E34
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Title
Energy, ecocriticism, and nineteenth-century fiction : novel ecologies / Barri J. Gold.
ISBN
9783030686048 (electronic bk.)
3030686043 (electronic bk.)
9783030686031
3030686035
3030686043 (electronic bk.)
9783030686031
3030686035
Published
Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Language
English
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1 online resource : illustrations
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10.1007/978-3-030-68604-8 doi
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PR468.E34
Dewey Decimal Classification
823/.80936
809.034
809.034
Summary
Energy, Ecocriticism, and Nineteenth-Century Fiction: Novel Ecologies draws on energy concepts to revisit some of our favorite booksMansfield Park, Jane Eyre, Great Expectations, and The War of the Worldsand the ways these shape our sense of ourselves as ecological beings. Barri J. Gold regards the laws of thermodynamics not solely as a set of physical principles, but also as a cultural and conceptual form that we can use to reimagine our historically vexed relationship to the natural world. Beginning with an examination of the parallel inceptions of energy and ecology in the mid-nineteenth century, this book considers the question of how we may better read and interpret our world, developing a recipe for experimental reading and insisting upon the importance of literary studies in a world driving to ecological catastrophe.
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Palgrave studies in literature, science, and medicine.
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Energy, ecocriticism, and nineteenth-century fiction.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction: Experiments in Novel Ecologies
2. Austens Emergent Ecologies
3. "A Fundamentally Unheroic Kind of Story" : Jane Eyre, the liberal subject, and the problem of ecology
4. Energy, Evolution, Ecology
5. From the Marshes to the Garden: Toxicity and Closure in Great Expectations
6. Environmental Catastrophe, Provisional Disillusionment and The War of the Worlds.
2. Austens Emergent Ecologies
3. "A Fundamentally Unheroic Kind of Story" : Jane Eyre, the liberal subject, and the problem of ecology
4. Energy, Evolution, Ecology
5. From the Marshes to the Garden: Toxicity and Closure in Great Expectations
6. Environmental Catastrophe, Provisional Disillusionment and The War of the Worlds.