Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xxxii, 793 Seiten)
ISBN:
9780429355660
Content:
This volumeincludes sources relating to a range of social and cultural contexts, including the proliferation of natural history crazes (ferns, aquaria, orchids, etc); debates about the social and environmental impacts of changing land use in town and country; debates about demographics, population, and resources inspired by Thomas Malthus; attempts to preserve landscapes (e.g., The Commons Preservation Society), debates about hunger, poverty, and disease in the countryside, particularly during the Hungry Forties', and relating to the Captain Swing and Chartist disturbances; the rise of land Utopianism and rural Utopian community projects; the rise of new forms of rural leisure; aesthetic engagements with rural enviroments and new world travel; and debates about pollution (especially water pollution). The volume will also turn to a range of literary sources from the period prior to 1858 to illustrate the ways in which changing attitudes to environments emerged in fiction. These include extracts from Dickens's early works, the hunting novels of R. S. Surtees, the social novels of Harriet Martineau, Charlotte Tonna, Charles Kingsley and Margaret Oliphant, John Ruskin's environmental fairytale, The King of the Golden River', chartist fiction, Victorian children's fiction, and adventure novels
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780367403621
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Environment and ecology in the long nineteenth-century ; volume 2: Popular, cultural, social, political, and ecological perspectives on environment, 1789-1858 London : Routledge, 2025 ISBN 9780367403621
Language:
English
Keywords:
Umweltwissenschaften
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Ökologie
DOI:
10.4324/9780429355660
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