The Sky of Our Manufacture : The London Fog in British Fiction from Dickens to Woolf.

Intro -- The Sky of Our Manufacture -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introducrion: A Novel Climate -- Part 1 The Novel as Climate Model -- 1 Realism after Nature: Reading the Greenhouse Effect in Bleak House -- 2 Specters of Capital: Our Mutual Friend and the Economy of Smog -- 3 Affecting an Atmosphere: George Eliot and the Climate of History -- Part 2 Abnatural Supernaturalism -- 4 Being Impure: Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and the Polluted Body -- 5 The Death Is the Life: Dracula, Fossil Fuels, and the Ecology of Undeath -- 6 The Science and Fiction of Detection in the Global Metropolis -- Part 3 Climatic Modernism -- 7 Planetary Impressions: Joseph Conrad and the Fiction of Global Connection -- 8 Climatic Modernism: Virginia Woolf and Anthropocene Literary History -- Epilogue: After London, or, Metropolis Earth -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Hyde, Dracula, and the Sherlock Holmes mysteries to works by Joseph Conrad and Virginia Woolf--alongside newspaper cartoons, scientific writings, and meteorological technologies to reveal a fascinating relationship between our cultural climate and the sky overhead. Under the Sign of Nature: Studies in Ecocriticism.

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