{"product_id":"haunting-ecologies-ursula-kluwick-9780813950976","title":"Haunting Ecologies: Victorian Conceptions of Water","description":"\u003cb\u003eVictorians' views of water and its role in how the social fabric of Victorian Britain was imagined\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Water matters like few other substances in people's daily lives. In the nineteenth century, it left its traces on politics, urban reform, and societal divisions, as well as on conceptualizations of gender roles. Drawing on the methodology of material ecocriticism, Ursula Kluwick's \u003ci\u003eHaunting Ecologies\u003c\/i\u003e argues that Victorian Britons were keenly aware of aquatic agency, recognizing water as an active force with the ability to infiltrate bodies and spaces. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Kluwick reads works by canonical writers such as Braddon, Dickens, Stoker, and George Eliot alongside sanitary reform discourse, court cases, journalistic articles, satirical cartoons, technical drawings, paintings, and maps. This wide-ranging study sheds new light on Victorian-era anxieties about water contamination as well as on how certain wet landscapes such as sewers, rivers, and marshes became associated with moral corruption and crime. Applying ideas from the field of blue humanities to nineteenth-century texts, \u003ci\u003eHaunting Ecologies\u003c\/i\u003e argues for the relevance of realism as an Anthropocene form.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ursula Kluwick\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 081395097X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780813950976\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Virginia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/18\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Ursula Kluwick","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45480039022847,"sku":"9780813950976","price":115.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2ff948a0-ec41-4f1c-837b-b570c239ae4a.jpg?v=1715949897","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/haunting-ecologies-ursula-kluwick-9780813950976","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}