Victorian Environmental Nightmares - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 3030140415 ISBN 13 : 9783030140410

Editeur : Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2019

Synopsis

The twelve essays in Victorian Environmental Nightmares explore various "environmental nightmares" through applied analyses of Victorian texts. Over the course of the nineteenth century, writers of imaginative literature often expressed fears and concerns over environmental degradation (in its wide variety of meanings, including social and moral). In some instances, natural or environmental disasters influenced these responses; in other instances a growing awareness of problems caused by industrial pollution and the growth of cities prompted responses. Seven essays in this volume cover works about Britain and its current and former colonies that examine these nightmare environments at home and abroad. But as the remaining five essays in this collection demonstrate, "environmental nightmares" are not restricted to essays on actual disasters or realistic fiction, since in many cases Victorian writers projected onto imperial landscapes or wholly imagined landscapes in fantastic fiction their anxieties about how humans might change their environments--and how these environments might also change humans.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Laurence W. Mazzeno is President Emeritus of Alvernia University in Reading, Pennsylvania, USA.
Ronald D. Morrison is Professor of English at Morehead State University in Morehead, Kentucky, USA.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Springer Nature Switzerland AG
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3030140415
• ISBN 13: 9783030140410
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 285
• Éditeur: Mazzeno Laurence W., Morrison Ronald D.
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