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This collection includes twelve provocative essays from a diverse
group of international scholars, who utilize a range of
interdisciplinary approaches to analyze "real" and
"representational" animals that stand out as culturally significant
to Victorian literature and culture. Essays focus on a wide range
of canonical and non-canonical Victorian writers, including Charles
Dickens, Anthony Trollope, Anna Sewell, Emily Bronte, James
Thomson, Christina Rossetti, and Richard Marsh, and they focus on a
diverse array of forms: fiction, poetry, journalism, and letters.
These essays consider a wide range of cultural attitudes and
literary treatments of animals in the Victorian Age, including the
development of the animal protection movement, the importation of
animals from the expanding Empire, the acclimatization of British
animals in other countries, and the problems associated with
increasing pet ownership. The collection also includes an
Introduction co-written by the editors and Suggestions for Further
Study, and will prove of interest to scholars and students across
the multiple disciplines which comprise Animal Studies.
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.
Thomas Hardy enjoyed a long and distinguished career as a novelist
before devoting his talents to writing poetry for the remainder of
his life. This book focuses on Hardy's remarkable achievements as a
novelist. Although Victorian readers considered some of his works
controversial, his novels remained highly regarded. His novels
still appear in the syllabi of courses in Victorian literature and
the British novel, as well as courses in feminist/gender studies,
environmental studies, and other topics. For scholars, students,
and the general reader, this companion helps to makes Hardy's
novels accessible by providing a detailed biography of Hardy, plot
summaries of each novel, and analyses of the critical contexts
surrounding them. Entries focus on the people, cultural forces,
literary forms, and movements that influenced Hardy's novels. The
companion also suggests approaches for original interpretations and
suggestions for further study.
Applying ecocritical theory to the work of Victorian writers, this
collection explores what a diversity of ecocritical approaches can
offer students and scholars of Victorian literature, at the same
time that it critiques the general effectiveness of ecocritical
theory. Interdisciplinary in their approach, the essays take up
questions related to the nonhuman, botany, landscape, evolutionary
science, and religion. The contributors cast a wide net in terms of
genre, analyzing novels, poetry, periodical works, botanical
literature, life-writing, and essays. Focusing on a wide range of
canonical and noncanonical writers, including Charles Dickens, the
Brontes, John Ruskin, Christina Rossetti, Jane Webb Loudon, Anna
Sewell, and Richard Jefferies, Victorian Writers and the
Environment demonstrates the ways in which nineteenth-century
authors engaged not only with humans' interaction with the
environment during the Victorian period, but also how some authors
anticipated more recent attitudes toward the environment.
This collection includes twelve provocative essays from a diverse
group of international scholars, who utilize a range of
interdisciplinary approaches to analyze "real" and
"representational" animals that stand out as culturally significant
to Victorian literature and culture. Essays focus on a wide range
of canonical and non-canonical Victorian writers, including Charles
Dickens, Anthony Trollope, Anna Sewell, Emily Bronte, James
Thomson, Christina Rossetti, and Richard Marsh, and they focus on a
diverse array of forms: fiction, poetry, journalism, and letters.
These essays consider a wide range of cultural attitudes and
literary treatments of animals in the Victorian Age, including the
development of the animal protection movement, the importation of
animals from the expanding Empire, the acclimatization of British
animals in other countries, and the problems associated with
increasing pet ownership. The collection also includes an
Introduction co-written by the editors and Suggestions for Further
Study, and will prove of interest to scholars and students across
the multiple disciplines which comprise Animal Studies.
Rock and Romanticism: Blake, Wordsworth, and Rock from Dylan to U2
is an edited anthology that seeks to explain just how rock and roll
is a Romantic phenomenon that sheds light, retrospectively, on what
literary Romanticism was at its different points of origin and on
what it has become in the present. This anthology allows Byron and
Wollstonecraft to speak back to contemporary theories of
Romanticism through Bob Dylan and the Rolling Stones. Relying on
Loewy and Sayre's Romanticism Against the Tide of Modernity, it
explores how hostility, loss, and longing for unity are
particularly appropriate terms for classic rock as well as the
origins of these emotions. In essays ranging from Bob Dylan to
Blackberry Smoke, this work examines how rock and roll expands,
interprets, restates, interrogates, and conflicts with literary
Romanticism, all the while understanding that as a term "rock and
roll" in reference to popular music from the late 1940s through the
early 2000s is every bit as contradictory and difficult to define
as the word Romanticism itself.
Rock and Romanticism: Blake, Wordsworth, and Rock from Dylan to U2
is an edited anthology that seeks to explain just how rock and roll
is a Romantic phenomenon that sheds light, retrospectively, on what
literary Romanticism was at its different points of origin and on
what it has become in the present. This anthology allows Byron and
Wollstonecraft to speak back to contemporary theories of
Romanticism through Bob Dylan and the Rolling Stones. Relying on
Loewy and Sayre's Romanticism Against the Tide of Modernity, it
explores how hostility, loss, and longing for unity are
particularly appropriate terms for classic rock as well as the
origins of these emotions. In essays ranging from Bob Dylan to
Blackberry Smoke, this work examines how rock and roll expands,
interprets, restates, interrogates, and conflicts with literary
Romanticism, all the while understanding that as a term "rock and
roll" in reference to popular music from the late 1940s through the
early 2000s is every bit as contradictory and difficult to define
as the word Romanticism itself.
Applying ecocritical theory to the work of Victorian writers, this
collection explores what a diversity of ecocritical approaches can
offer students and scholars of Victorian literature, at the same
time that it critiques the general effectiveness of ecocritical
theory. Interdisciplinary in their approach, the essays take up
questions related to the nonhuman, botany, landscape, evolutionary
science, and religion. The contributors cast a wide net in terms of
genre, analyzing novels, poetry, periodical works, botanical
literature, life-writing, and essays. Focusing on a wide range of
canonical and noncanonical writers, including Charles Dickens, the
Brontes, John Ruskin, Christina Rossetti, Jane Webb Loudon, Anna
Sewell, and Richard Jefferies, Victorian Writers and the
Environment demonstrates the ways in which nineteenth-century
authors engaged not only with humans' interaction with the
environment during the Victorian period, but also how some authors
anticipated more recent attitudes toward the environment.
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