Victorian Writers and the Environment: Ecocritical Perspectives (Among the Victorians and Modernists)

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Synopsis
Applying ecocritical theory to the work of Victorian writers, this collection explores what a diversity of ecocritical approaches can offer students and scholars of Victorian literature, at the same time that it critiques the general effectiveness of ecocritical theory. Interdisciplinary in their approach, the essays take up questions related to the nonhuman, botany, landscape, evolutionary science, and religion. The contributors cast a wide net in terms of genre, analyzing novels, poetry, periodical works, botanical literature, life-writing, and essays. Focusing on a wide range of canonical and noncanonical writers, including Charles Dickens, the Brontes, John Ruskin, Christina Rossetti, Jane Webb Loudon, Anna Sewell, and Richard Jefferies, Victorian Writers and the Environment demonstrates the ways in which nineteenth-century authors engaged not only with humans’ interaction with the environment during the Victorian period, but also how some authors anticipated more recent attitudes toward the environment.
Copyright:
2017

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
260 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781317002017
Related ISBNs:
9781315548234, 9781472454706, 9780367346447
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
selection and editorial matter, Laurence W. Mazzeno and Ronald D. Morrison
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
History, Literature and Fiction, Outdoors and Nature, Language Arts
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Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:
Laurence W. Mazzeno
Edited by:
Ronald D. Morrison

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