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Richard Jefferies, After London; or Wild England (Paperback)
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Richard Jefferies, After London; or Wild England (Paperback)
Series: Edinburgh Critical Editions of Nineteenth-Century Texts
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Richard Jefferies' After London is uncanny and intriguing, an
adventure story, quest romance, dystopia, and Darwinian novel
rolled into one, but also a pioneering work of Victorian science
fiction. Imagining a mysterious natural catastrophe that plunges
its people into a barbaric future, Jefferies remarkable novel
drowns and destroys London and depicts a challenging 'Wild England'
dominated by nature and filled with evolved animals and devolved
humans. Of its time but also distinctively modern, After London
can, in its uneasy expression of Victorian and post-Victorian
anxieties about industrial development, urbanisation, natural
resources, and climate, be regarded as one of the first novels of
the Anthropocene. This new critical edition provides one of the
earliest examples of a global catastrophe novel that is part of a
flowering of nineteenth-century science fiction. It situates After
London in a tradition of mid-late Victorian texts that respond to
the evolutionary theories of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel
Wallace and responds to a host of other key social, political, and
cultural issues of the period.
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