Ecological Form - System and Aesthetics in the Age of Empire (Paperback)

Ecological Form brings together leading voices in nineteenth-century ecocriticism to suture the lingering divide between postcolonial and ecocritical approaches. Together, these essays show how Victorian thinkers used aesthetic form to engage problems of system, interconnection, and dispossession that remain our own. The authors reconsider Victorian literary structures in light of environmental catastrophe; coordinate "natural" questions with sociopolitical ones; and underscore the category of form as a means for generating environmental-and therefore political-knowledge. Moving from the elegy and the industrial novel to the utopian romance, the scientific treatise, and beyond, Ecological Form demonstrates how nineteenth-century thinkers conceptualized the circuits of extraction and violence linking Britain to its global network. Yet the book's most pressing argument is that this past thought can be a resource for reimagining the present.

General

Imprint:	Fordham University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	November 2018
Editors:	Nathan K. Hensley • Philip Steer
Afterword by:	Karen Pinkus
Contributors:	Nathan K. Hensley • Philip Steer • Lynn Voskuil • Jesse Oak Taylor • Teresa Shewry • Aaron Rosenberg • Benjamin Morgan
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback - Trade / Trade
Pages:	256
ISBN-13:	978-0-8232-8211-1
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary theory Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Social impact of environmental issues > General
LSN:	0-8232-8211-2
Barcode:	9780823282111

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