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Victorian Ecocriticism : The Politics of Place and Early Environmental Justice.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Ecocritical Theory and Practice SeriesPublisher: Lanham : Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (212 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781498551076
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Victorian EcocriticismDDC classification:
  • 820.9/36
LOC classification:
  • PR468.N3.V53 2007
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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