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Ecological form :

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0823282120

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0823282139

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0823282147

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9780823282128

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9780823282135

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0823282112

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9780823282111

Title Proper

Ecological form :

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[Book]

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system and aesthetics in the age of empire /

First Statement of Responsibility

Nathan K. Hensley and Philip Steer, editors.

Edition Statement

First edition.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Fordham University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2019.

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©2019

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (vi, 261 pages)

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Cover; ECOLOGICAL FORM; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; Introduction: Ecological Formalism; or, Love among the Ruins; Part I METHOD; 1. Drama, Ecology, and the Ground of Empire: The Play of Indigo; 2. Mourning Species: In Memoriam in an Age of Extinction; 3. Signatures of the Carboniferous: The Literary Forms of Coal; Part II FORM; 4. Fixed Capital and the Flow: Water Power, Steam Power, and The Mill on the Floss; 5. "Form Against Force": Sustainability and Organicism in the Work of John Ruskin; 6. Mapping the "Invisible Region, Far Away" in Dombey and Son; Part III SCALE.

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7. How We Might Live: Utopian Ecology in William Morris and Samuel Butler8. From Specimen to System: Botanical Scale and the Environmental Sublime in Joseph Dalton Hooker's Himalayas; 9. "Infinitesimal Lives": Thomas Hardy's Scale Effects; Part IV FUTURES; 10. Electric Dialectics: Delany's Atlantic Materialism; 11. Satire's Ecology; Afterword: They Would Have Ended by Burning Their Own Globe; Acknowledgments; List of Contributors; Index.

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"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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Knowledge Unlatched

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102770

International Standard Book Number

9780823282128

Ecocriticism.

Ecology in literature.

English literature-- 19th century-- History and criticism.

Environmentalism in literature.

Industrialization in literature.

Ecocriticism.

Ecology in literature.

English literature.

Environmentalism in literature.

Industrialization in literature.

LITERARY CRITICISM-- European-- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.

Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900.

DSBF

LIT-- 004120

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Hensley, Nathan K.

Steer, Philip

Date of Transaction

20200822141122.0

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