Format:
1 online resource (212 pages)
ISBN:
9781498551076
Series Statement:
Ecocritical Theory and Practice
Content:
This interdisciplinary collection explores Victorian literature and its connection to various fields such as environmental history, ecology, and evolutionary biology. Further, the edition features seminal nineteenth-century figures advancing the cause of early environmental justice linked to place.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Part One: Place in the British Isles -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Railways, Tourism, and Preservation in the Victorian Lake District -- 3 Wending Homeward -- 4 Hard Times -- 5 The Politics of Place Attachment and the Laboring Body in Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles -- Part Two: Place in Australia, Newfoundland, and America -- 6 Antipodal Ecology -- 7 Ecotheological Morality in Charles Kingsley's The Water-Babies -- 8 Philip Henry Gosse, Newfoundland, and the Unveiling of Wonders -- 9 Seeing Soils -- 10 "Different shades of green" -- Index -- About the Contributors.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781498551069
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781498551069
Language:
English