The Cambridge companion to Victorian literature and the environment / edited by Dennis Denisoff.
| Other author | Denisoff, Dennis, 1961 |
| Other author | Cambridge University Press. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2026. |
| Description | pages cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Cambridge Companions |
| Subjects |
| Series | Cambridge companions to literature |
| Contents | Novel geologies : Victorian fiction in catastrophic times / Jesse Oak Taylor -- Ecogothic : Dislocations of scale / Roger Luckhurst -- Entropy, exhaustion, and degeneration in science fiction and decadence / Benjamin Morgan -- Blue ecologies / Cannon Schmitt -- Aesthetic form and global systems / Nathan K. Hensley -- Agricultural ecologies / Grace Moore -- Empire, environment, and botanical art in British India / Lindsay Wells -- The agricultural roots of realism : Lal Behari Day's Govinda Samanta / Sukanya Banerjee -- British values, indigenous knowledge, and settler colonial environments / Philip Steer -- Floral poetics / Catherine Maxwell -- Vegetal ontology in Emily Dickinson's poetic herbarium / Michael Marder -- Queer ecology and the animal in Walter Pater and William Sharp / Dennis Denisoff -- Plant agency / Elizabeth Chang -- "A little in the mining way" : Victorian literatures of extraction / Elizabeth Carolyn Miller -- The Victorian Capitalocene : Olive Schreiner on the frontier / Ella Mershon -- The art of extinction : Naturalizing colonization and Walter Buller's A History of the Birds of New Zealand*/ Wendy Parkins -- Land use : The farm, the common and the wild / Carolyn Lesjak -- Pollution / Allen MacDuffie -- Art and environment / Kate Flint -- Climate and empire / Adeline Johns-Putra -- The uncomfortable commons in Lewis Carroll and William Morris / Barbara Leckie -- Form and activism / Caroline Levine. |
| Abstract | "The Victorians invented environmentalism but struggled with their human-centred perspectives and values. This collection of essays on 19th-century literature and environmental history introduces readers to the ways in which their struggles, insights, and innovations may shed revealing light on the state of environmentalism today"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2025039296 |
| ISBN | 9781009412841 hardback |
| ISBN | 9781009412810 paperback |
| ISBN | ebook |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |