Haunting Ecologies: Victorian Conceptions of Water (Victorian Literature and Culture Series)

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Synopsis
Victorians&’ views of water and its role in how the social fabric of Victorian Britain was imagined 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 Haunting Ecologies argues that Victorian Britons were keenly aware of aquatic agency, recognizing water as an active force with the ability to infiltrate bodies and spaces. 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, Haunting Ecologies argues for the relevance of realism as an Anthropocene form.
Copyright:
2024

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ISBN-13:
9780813950990
Related ISBNs:
9780813950976, 9780813950983
Publisher:
University of Virginia Press
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Copyrighted By:
the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia
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No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
History, Nonfiction, Romance, Science, Art and Architecture, Literature and Fiction, Outdoors and Nature, Language Arts, Earth Sciences
Grade Levels:
Graduate Student
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Bookshare Staff
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