Victorian Ecocriticism : The Politics of Place and Early Environmental Justice.
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- computer
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- 9781498551076
- 820.9/36
- PR468.N3.V53 2007
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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