Energy, Ecocriticism, and Nineteenth-Century Fiction

Novel Ecologies

von Barri J. Gold

215 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Energy, Ecocriticism, and Nineteenth-Century Fiction: Novel Ecologies draws on energy concepts to revisit some of our favorite books—Mansfield Park , Jane Eyre , Great Expectations , and The War of the Worlds —and the ways these shape our sense of ourselves as ecological beings. Barri J. Gold regards the laws of thermodynamics not solely as a set of physical principles, but also as a cultural and conceptual form that we can use to reimagine our historically vexed relationship to the natural world. Beginning with an examination of the parallel inceptions of energy and ecology in the mid-nineteenth century, this book considers the question of how we may better read and interpret our world, developing a recipe for experimental reading and insisting upon the importance of literary studies in a world driving to ecological catastrophe. 

 

• Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
• Themen: Biographie, Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft Geschichte und Kritik Literaturwissenschaft, allgemein 1800 bis 1900
• ISBN: 9783030686031
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 11.04.2021
• Größe: 21 x 14.8 cm
• Verlag: Springer International Publishing