Format:
1 Online-Ressource (viii, 211 Seiten)
ISBN:
9780192888488
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019288848X
Content:
Novel Environments: Science, Description, and Victorian Fiction examines how description in the Victorian novel helped to shape our modern understanding of the environment
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Intro -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- The Discourse of Environment in the Victorian Sciences -- Description's Dynamism -- Victorian Ecocriticism and the Novel as Environment -- Chapter Summaries -- 1. The Habitats of Mary Russell Mitford's Our Village -- Natural Theology, the Habitat, and Descriptive Vivacity -- "All Transplantable Things": Adaptation Narratives in Our Village -- Mitford's Transplanted Meadows -- 2. George Eliot's Biological Media -- The Organism-Environment Relationship in Mid-Victorian Organicist Thought
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Environmental Desire in The Mill on the Floss -- Middlemarch's Sympathetic Atmospheres -- 3. Thomas Hardy's Virtual Environments -- Spencer's Psychological Environments -- Virtuality Effects in The Woodlanders -- The Novel as Virtual Environment -- 4. Robert Louis Stevenson's Islands and the Poetry of Circumstance -- Limited Agency, Setting, and the Poetry of Circumstance -- Circumstance and Active Description in Treasure Island -- "Death to the optic nerve": Describing the Environment of Empire in The Wrecker and The Ebb-Tide -- Coda: Immersed in the Environment -- Bibliography -- Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780192888471
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Hildebrand, Jayne Novel environments Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023 ISBN 9780192888471
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
