Victorian Literature, Energy, and the Ecological Imagination
Author:   Allen MacDuffie (University of Texas, Austin)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Volume:   93
ISBN:  

9781107064379


Pages:   324
Publication Date:   29 May 2014
Format:   Hardback
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier.

Our Price $243.23 Quantity:  
Add to Cart

Share |

Victorian Literature, Energy, and the Ecological Imagination


Overview

Full Product Details

Author:   Allen MacDuffie (University of Texas, Austin)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Volume:   93
Dimensions:   Width: 15.70cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.590kg
ISBN:  

9781107064379


ISBN 10:   1107064376
Pages:   324
Publication Date:   29 May 2014
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier.

Table of Contents

Introduction: limited environments, fictions of escape; Part I. Thermodynamics and its Discontents: 1. The city and the sun; 2. The death of the sun at the dawn of the Anthropocene; Part II. Unsustainable Fictions: 3. Energy systems and narrative systems in Charles Dickens's Bleak House; 4. The renewable energies of Our Mutual Friend; 5. John Ruskin's alternative energy; 6. Personal fantasy, natural limits: Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde; 7. Joseph Conrad: energy, entropy, and the fictions of empire; 8. Evolutionary energy and the future: Henry Maudsley and H. G. Wells; Bibliography.

Reviews

Author Information

Allen MacDuffie is Assistant Professor in the English Department at the University of Texas, Austin.

Tab Content 6

Author Website:  

Countries Available

All regions
Latest Reading Guide

NOV RG 20252

 

Shopping Cart
Your cart is empty
 Shopping cart
Mailing List

 

Sign up now