Victorian Environmental Nightmares
Editors: Mazzeno, Laurence W., Morrison, Ronald D. (Eds.)
Free Preview- Takes a broad view of the term "environmental nightmares" as opposed to simply restricting it to essays on actual natural disastersExamines work from authors as diverse as H.G. Wells and Elizabeth Barrett BrowningInterrogates the nature of what constitutes a major/minor text by foregrounding natural and created environments
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- About this book
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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. - About the authors
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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.
- Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Introduction: Representing Victorian Environmental Nightmares
Pages 1-21
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The Assumption of the Dragon: Ruskin’s Mythic Vision
Pages 25-44
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Failed Pastoral and the Environments of the Poor
Pages 45-60
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Pip’s Nightmare and Orlick’s Dream
Pages 61-78
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Frances Trollope’s Domestic Manners of the Americans and the EcoGothic
Pages 81-100
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Victorian Environmental Nightmares
- Editors
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- Laurence W. Mazzeno
- Ronald D. Morrison
- Copyright
- 2019
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-14042-7
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-14042-7
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-14041-0
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XII, 273
- Number of Illustrations
- 4 b/w illustrations
- Topics
