Overview
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.
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Author: Laurence W. Mazzeno ,
Ronald D. Morrison
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint: Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition: 2019 ed.
Weight: 0.503kg
ISBN: 9783030140410
ISBN 10: 3030140415
Pages: 273
Publication Date: 15 May 2019
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
“The collection is an important intervention in Victorian environmental criticism and one of the first full-length works to address this subject. … Overall, the collection succeeds in providing a fresh direction for Victorian ecocriticism, suggesting several pathways for new work in the field … . In itself, it is a valuable resource for all scholars interested in nineteenth-century understandings of the world beyond the human animal.” (Ailise Bulfin, Victorian Studies, Vol. 63 (3), 2021)
The collection is an important intervention in Victorian environmental criticism and one of the first full-length works to address this subject. ... Overall, the collection succeeds in providing a fresh direction for Victorian ecocriticism, suggesting several pathways for new work in the field ... . In itself, it is a valuable resource for all scholars interested in nineteenth-century understandings of the world beyond the human animal. (Ailise Bulfin, Victorian Studies, Vol. 63 (3), 2021)
Author Information
Laurence W. Mazzeno is President Emeritus of Alvernia University in Reading, Pennsylvania, USA. Ronald D. Morrison is Professor of English at Morehead State University in Morehead, Kentucky, USA.
