Victorian writers and the environment : ecocritical perspectives

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Imprint:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2017

Subject:

English literature - 19th century - History and criticism
Ecocriticism - Great Britain
Nature in literature
Environmental protection in literature

Contributor:

Mazzeno, Laurence W., editor
Morrison, Ronald D., editor

ISBN:

9781472454706 and 1472454707

Series:

Among the Victorians and modernists

Description:

vi, 260 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Bibliographic Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 236-245) and index

Contents:

Practical ecocriticism and the Victorian text / Laurence W. Mazzeno and Ronald D. Morrison -- Reading nature: John Ruskin, environment, and the ecological impulse / Mark Frost -- Between "bounded field" and "brooding star": a study of Tennyson's topography / Valerie Purton -- Celebration and longing: Robert Browning and the nonhuman world / Ashton Nichols -- "Truth to nature": the pleasures and dangers of the environment in Christina Rossetti's poetry / Serena Trowbridge -- The zoocentric ecology of Hardy's poetic consciousness / Christine Roth -- Early Dickens and ecocriticism: the social novelist and the nonhuman / Troy Boone -- Bleak intra-actions: Dickens, turbulence, material ecology / John Parham -- Dark nature: a critical return to Brontë country / Deirdre D'Albertis -- Anna Sewell's Black Beauty: reframing the pastoral tradition / Erin Bistline -- The environmental politics and aesthetics of Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines: capital, mourning, and desire / John Miller -- Jane Loudon's wildflowers, popular science, and the Victorian culture of knowledge / Mary Ellen Bellanca -- Falling in love with seaweeds: the seaside environments of George Eliot and G.H. Lewes / Anna Feuerstein -- Agriculture and ecology in Richard Jeffries's Hodge and His Masters / Ronald D. Morrison -- Edward Carpenter, Henry Salt, and the animal limits of Victorian environments / Jed Mayer

Summary:

"Applying ecocritical theory to the work of Victorian writers, this collection explores what a diversity of ecocritical approaches can offer students and scholars of Victorian literature, a the same time that it critiques the general effectiveness of ecocritical theory. Interdisciplinary in their approach, the chapters take up questions related to the nonhuman, botany, landscape, evolutionary science, and religion. The contributors cast a wide net in terms of genre, analyzing novels, poetry, periodical works, botanical literature, life-writing, and essays. Focusing on a wide range of canonical and noncanonical writers, including Charles Dickens, the Brontës, John Ruskin, Christina Rossetti, Jane Webb Loudon, Anna Sewell, and Richard Jeffries, Victorian Writers and the Environment demonstrates the ways in which nineteenth-century authors engaged not only with humans' interaction with the environment during the Victorian period, but also how some authors anticipated more recent attitudes toward the environment."-- Back cover

Collection:

BGC Monograph Stacks

Call Number:

PR143 .V53 2017

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