@article{826921,
      recid = {826921},
      author = {Moore, Grace, and Smith, Michelle J.,},
      title = {Victorian environments : acclimatizing to change in  British domestic and colonial culture /},
      pages = {1 online resource (xv, 317 pages).},
      abstract = {This collection will draw attention to new ideas in both  Victorian studies and in the emerging area of literature  and the environment. Adopting a broad interpretation of the  term 'environment' the work aims to draw together new  approaches to Victorian texts and cultures that  conceptualise and are influenced by environments ranging  from rural to urban, British to Antipodean, and from the  terrestrial to the aquatic.With the pressures of  industrialism and the clustering of workers in urban  centres, the Victorians were acutely aware that their  environment was changing. Torn between nostalgia for a  countryside that was in jeopardy and exhilaration at the  rapidity with which their surroundings altered, the  literature and culture produced by the Victorians reflects  a world undergoing radical change. Colonization and  assisted emigration schemes expanded the scope of the  environment still further, pushing the boundaries of the  'home' on an unprecedented scale and introducing strange  new worlds. These untamed physical environments enabled new  freedoms, but also posed challenges that invited attempts  to control, taxonomize and harness the natural world.  Victorian Environments draws together leading and emerging  international scholars for an examination of how various  kinds of environments were constructed, redefined, and  transformed, in British and colonial texts and cultures,  with particular attention to the relationship between  Australia and Britain. .},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/826921},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-57337-7},
}