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almafu_9959615344602883
Format:
1 online resource (256 p.) :
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ISBN:
9780823282142
Content:
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.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Introduction. Ecological Formalism; or, Love Among the Ruins --
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Chapter 1. Drama, Ecology, and the Ground of Empire The Play of Indigo --
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Chapter 2. Mourning Species In Memoriam in an Age of Extinction --
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Chapter 3. Signatures of the Carboniferous --
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Chapter 4. Fixed Capital and the Flow --
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Chapter 5. “Form Against Force” --
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Chapter 6. Mapping the “Invisible Region, Far Away” in Dombey and Son --
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Chapter 7. How We Might Live --
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Chapter 8. From Specimen to System --
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Chapter 9. “Infinitesimal Lives” --
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Chapter 10. Electric Dialectics --
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Chapter 11. Satire’s Ecology --
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Afterword. They Would Have Ended by Burning Their Own Globe --
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Acknowledgments --
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Contributors --
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Index
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In English.
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9780823282142
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823282142
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780823282142
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823282142
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780823282142
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