书目名称 | Victorian Environmental Nightmares |
编辑 | Laurence W. Mazzeno,Ronald D. Morrison |
视频video | http://file.papertrans.cn/983/982860/982860.mp4 |
概述 | Takes a broad view of the term "environmental nightmares" as opposed to simply restricting it to essays on actual natural disasters.Examines work from authors as diverse as H.G. Wells and Elizabeth Ba |
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描述 | .The twelve essays in .Victorian Environmental Nightmares .explore various “environmental nightmares” through applied analyses of Victorian texts. Over the course of the nineteenth century, writers of imaginative literature often expressed fears and concerns over environmental degradation (in its wide variety of meanings, including social and moral). In some instances, natural or environmental disasters influenced these responses; in other instances a growing awareness of problems caused by industrial pollution and the growth of cities prompted responses. Seven essays in this volume cover works about Britain and its current and former colonies that examine these nightmare environments at home and abroad. But as the remaining five essays in this collection demonstrate, “environmental nightmares” are not restricted to essays on actual disasters or realistic fiction, since in many cases Victorian writers projected onto imperial landscapes or wholly imagined landscapes in fantastic fiction their anxieties about how humans might change their environments—and how these environments might also change humans. . |
出版日期 | Book 2019 |
关键词 | Industrialization; Disaster; Degradation; John Ruskin; Elizabeth Barrett Browning; Australian Literature; |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14042-7 |
isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-14042-7 |
copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019 |