Overview
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 Barrett Browning
Interrogates the nature of what constitutes a major/minor text by foregrounding natural and created environments
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Abroad
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Imagined Landscapes
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Back Matter
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About this book
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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About the editors
Ronald D. Morrison is Professor of English at Morehead State University in Morehead, Kentucky, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Victorian Environmental Nightmares
Editors: Laurence W. Mazzeno, Ronald D. Morrison
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14042-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-14041-0Published: 15 May 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-14042-7Published: 06 May 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 273
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations
Topics: Nineteenth-Century Literature, British and Irish Literature, Environmental Communication