The Cambridge companion to Victorian literature and the environment / edited by Dennis Denisoff.
| Other author | Denisoff, Dennis, 1961- editor. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2026. |
| Copyright Date | ©2026 |
| Description | xv, 308 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Physical medium | illustration |
| Series | Cambridge companions to literature Cambridge companions to literature. |
| Contents | Introduction: Environments and their Victorians / Dennis Denisoff -- Part I. The global imaginary ; 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 -- Part II. Imperialism and colonialism ; 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 -- Part III. Vegetal and animal correlations ; 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 -- Part IV. Environmental uses and abuses ; "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 -- Part V. Environmentalism ; 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 and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version http://id.loc.gov/entities/relationships/onlineversion Cambridge companion to Victorian literature and the environment Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2026 9781009412865 |
| Issued in other form | ebook version : 9781009412865 |
| Genre/form | Literary criticism. |
| Genre/form | Critiques littéraires. |
| LCCN | 2025039296 |
| ISBN | 9781009412810 |
| ISBN | 9781009412841 hardcover |
| ISBN | 1009412841 hardcover |
| ISBN | 1009412817 paperback |
| ISBN | electronic book |
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