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Ecological Form: System and Aesthetics in the Age of Empire (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780823282111)
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xEcological 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.
Author: Nathan K. Hensley
ISBN-10: 0823282112
ISBN-13: 9780823282111
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Language: English
Published: 12/04/2018
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.89lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.62d
Author: Nathan K. Hensley
ISBN-10: 0823282112
ISBN-13: 9780823282111
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Language: English
Published: 12/04/2018
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.89lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.62d
By Nathan K. Hensley
xKaren Pinkus (Afterword By)
Karen Pinkus is Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature at Cornell University. She is the author of Fuel: A Speculative Dictionary (2016), Alchemical Mercury: A Theory of Ambivalence (2009), The Montesi Scandal: The Death of Wilma Montesi and the Birth of the Paparazzi in Fellini's Rome (2003), Picturing Silence: Emblem, Language, Counter- Reformation Materiality (1996), and Bodily Regimes: Italian Advertising Under Fascism (1995). Nathan K. Hensley (Edited By)
Nathan K. Hensley is Associate Professor of English at Georgetown University. He is the author of Forms of Empire: The Poetics of Victorian Sovereignty (2016). Philip Steer (Edited By)
Philip Steer is Senior Lecturer in English at Massey University. His current book project is "Borders of Britishness: The Novel and Political Economy in the Victorian Settler Empire."
Karen Pinkus is Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature at Cornell University. She is the author of Fuel: A Speculative Dictionary (2016), Alchemical Mercury: A Theory of Ambivalence (2009), The Montesi Scandal: The Death of Wilma Montesi and the Birth of the Paparazzi in Fellini's Rome (2003), Picturing Silence: Emblem, Language, Counter- Reformation Materiality (1996), and Bodily Regimes: Italian Advertising Under Fascism (1995). Nathan K. Hensley (Edited By)
Nathan K. Hensley is Associate Professor of English at Georgetown University. He is the author of Forms of Empire: The Poetics of Victorian Sovereignty (2016). Philip Steer (Edited By)
Philip Steer is Senior Lecturer in English at Massey University. His current book project is "Borders of Britishness: The Novel and Political Economy in the Victorian Settler Empire."
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