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Errant Natures and Wayward Bodies in Late-Victorian Speculative Fiction

by Adrian Tait ...

Adrian Tait argues that late-Victorian stories represent an important but still neglected part of a green literary tradition, setting up a dialogue with modernity that is no less relevant today.Late-Victorian literature is full of fascinating examples of what was then called the “scientific romance,” an emerging form of science or speculative fiction whose concern with the liveliness – or ... Read more

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Adrian Tait argues that late-Victorian stories represent an important but still neglected part of a green literary tradition, setting up a dialogue with modernity that is no less relevant today.Late-Victorian literature is full of fascinating examples of what was then called the “scientific romance,” an emerging form of science or speculative fiction whose concern with the liveliness – or
... Read more
Interrogating Boundaries of the Nonhuman

Literature, Climate Change, and Environmental Crises

by Matthias Stephan, Sune Borkfelt, Clare Archer-Lean, Anastasia Cardone, Kristen R. Egan, Owen Harry, Samantha Hind, Lauren O’Mahony, Adrian Tait0, Elizabeth Tavella1, Vera Veldhuizen2, Clare Wall3, Lauren E. Perry-Rummel4, Professor Mary Trachsel5 ...

Series series Ecocritical Theory and Practice
Interrogating Boundaries of the Nonhuman: Literature, Climate Change, and Environmental Crises asks whether literary works that interrogate and alter the terms of human-nonhuman relations can point to new, more sustainable ways forward. Bringing insights from the field of literary animal studies, a diverse and international group of scholars examine literary contributions to the ecological framing ... Read more

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Interrogating Boundaries of the Nonhuman: Literature, Climate Change, and Environmental Crises asks whether literary works that interrogate and alter the terms of human-nonhuman relations can point to new, more sustainable ways forward. Bringing insights from the field of literary animal studies, a diverse and international group of scholars examine literary contributions to the ecological framing
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Environmental Justice in Early Victorian Literature

by Adrian Tait ...

Series series Routledge Studies in Environmental Justice
This innovative new book combines environmental justice scholarship with a material ecocriticism to explore the way in which early Victorian literature (1837–1860) responded to the growing problem of environmental injustice.As this book emphasises, environmental injustice – simply, the convergence of poverty and pollution – was not an isolated phenomenon, but a structural form of inequality; a ... Read more

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This innovative new book combines environmental justice scholarship with a material ecocriticism to explore the way in which early Victorian literature (1837–1860) responded to the growing problem of environmental injustice.As this book emphasises, environmental injustice – simply, the convergence of poverty and pollution – was not an isolated phenomenon, but a structural form of inequality; a
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Aging Studies and Ecocriticism

Interdisciplinary Encounters

by Julia Hoydis, Anna-Christina Kainradl, Ulla Kriebernegg, Albert Banerjee, Simon Dickel, Katrina Dunn, Michaela Schrage-Früh, Silvia Gerlsbeck0, Stephen Hahn1, Julia Henderson2, Christian Lenz3, Tina-Karen Pusse4, Núria Mina-Riera5, Adrian Tait6, Nassim W. Balestrini8, Jade E. French9, Peter J. Whitehouse0 ...

Series series Ecocritical Theory and Practice
Aging Studies and Ecocriticism: Interdisciplinary Encounters argues that both aging studies and ecocriticism address the complex dynamics of individual and collective agency, oppression and dependency, care and conviviality, vulnerability and resistance as well as intergenerationality and responsibility. Yet, even though both fields employ overlapping methodologies and theoretical frameworks and ... Read more

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Aging Studies and Ecocriticism: Interdisciplinary Encounters argues that both aging studies and ecocriticism address the complex dynamics of individual and collective agency, oppression and dependency, care and conviviality, vulnerability and resistance as well as intergenerationality and responsibility. Yet, even though both fields employ overlapping methodologies and theoretical frameworks and
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Death and Garden Narratives in Literature, Art, and Film

Song of Death in Paradise

by Feryal Cubukcu, Nicolas Gaspers, Marguerite Gibson, Ekaterina Kochetkova, Frances Livings, Zennure Köseman, Sabine Planka, Isabelle Schwarz, Miriam Strieder0, Adrian Tait1, Philip van der Merwe2, Paul Venzo3 ...

Death and Garden Narratives in Literature, Art and Film: Song of Death in Paradise explores the combination of two motifs, death and gardens, to show how the two subjects are intertwined and used in various media and cultural contexts. Using cultural, literary, film, and art history theories, the contributors analyze various death and garden sceneries in literary works by Arthur Machen, Agatha ... Read more

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Death and Garden Narratives in Literature, Art and Film: Song of Death in Paradise explores the combination of two motifs, death and gardens, to show how the two subjects are intertwined and used in various media and cultural contexts. Using cultural, literary, film, and art history theories, the contributors analyze various death and garden sceneries in literary works by Arthur Machen, Agatha
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Victorian Ecocriticism

The Politics of Place and Early Environmental Justice

by Julie M. Barst, Natalie Rose Cox, Michelle J. Deininger, Sue Edney, Marlee Furhrmann, Jillmarie Murphy, Adrian Tait, Akemi Yoshida, Saeko Yoshikawa, Laura Dassow Walls ...

Series series Ecocritical Theory and Practice
Victorian Ecocriticism: The Politics of Place and Early Environmental Justice aims to take up the challenge that Lawrence Buell lays out in The Future of Environmental Criticism: Environmental Crisis and Literary Imagination (2005). Buell decries: “For in order to bring ‘environmental justice into ecocriticism,’ a few more articles or conference sessions won’t suffice. There must be ‘a fundamental ... Read more

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Victorian Ecocriticism: The Politics of Place and Early Environmental Justice aims to take up the challenge that Lawrence Buell lays out in The Future of Environmental Criticism: Environmental Crisis and Literary Imagination (2005). Buell decries: “For in order to bring ‘environmental justice into ecocriticism,’ a few more articles or conference sessions won’t suffice. There must be ‘a fundamental
... Read more
Arthur Machen

Critical Essays

by Francesco Corigliano, Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns, Justin Mullis, Jessica George, Kostas Boyiopoulos, Loredana Salis, Laura Mauro, Adrian Tait, Deborah Bridle, Geoffrey Reiter, Andrew R. Lenoir, Amanda M. Caleb, Emiliano Aguilar ...

Arthur Machen: Critical Essays offers a study of the works by Arthur Machen (1863-1947), the Welsh writer who has attracted a cult following for decades, especially among fans and scholars of weird fiction and Gothic studies. These essays take readers into different areas and address several topics in Machen's literary production: the literary, the artistic, the scientific, the religious, the ... Read more

$32.39 USD

Arthur Machen: Critical Essays offers a study of the works by Arthur Machen (1863-1947), the Welsh writer who has attracted a cult following for decades, especially among fans and scholars of weird fiction and Gothic studies. These essays take readers into different areas and address several topics in Machen's literary production: the literary, the artistic, the scientific, the religious, the
... Read more

Victorian Literature, Energy, and the Ecological Imagination

by Allen MacDuffie ...

Series Book 93 - Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
Reading Victorian literature and science in tandem, Victorian Literature, Energy, and the Ecological Imagination investigates how the concept of energy was fictionalized - both mystified and demystified - during the rise of a new resource-intensive industrial and economic order. The first extended study of a burgeoning area of critical interest of increasing importance to twenty-first-century ... Read more

$38.59 USD

Reading Victorian literature and science in tandem, Victorian Literature, Energy, and the Ecological Imagination investigates how the concept of energy was fictionalized - both mystified and demystified - during the rise of a new resource-intensive industrial and economic order. The first extended study of a burgeoning area of critical interest of increasing importance to twenty-first-century
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Science Fiction

A Very Short Introduction

by David Seed ...

Series series Very Short Introductions
Science Fiction has proved notoriously difficult to define. It has been explained as a combination of romance, science and prophecy; as a genre based on an imagined alternative to the reader's environment; and as a form of fantastic fiction and historical literature. It has also been argued that science fiction narratives are the most engaged, socially relevant, and responsive to the modern ... Read more

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Science Fiction has proved notoriously difficult to define. It has been explained as a combination of romance, science and prophecy; as a genre based on an imagined alternative to the reader's environment; and as a form of fantastic fiction and historical literature. It has also been argued that science fiction narratives are the most engaged, socially relevant, and responsive to the modern
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Liberalism

A Very Short Introduction

by Michael Freeden ...

Series series Very Short Introductions
Liberalism is one of the most central and pervasive political theories and ideologies, yet it is subject to different interpretations as well as misappropriations. Its history carries a crucial heritage of civilized thinking, of political practice, and of philosophical-ethical creativity. This Very Short Introduction unpacks the concept of liberalism and its various interpretations through three ... Read more

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Liberalism is one of the most central and pervasive political theories and ideologies, yet it is subject to different interpretations as well as misappropriations. Its history carries a crucial heritage of civilized thinking, of political practice, and of philosophical-ethical creativity. This Very Short Introduction unpacks the concept of liberalism and its various interpretations through three
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Horror

A Very Short Introduction

by Darryl Jones ...

Series series Very Short Introductions
Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Four o'clock in the morning, and the lights are on and still there's no way we're going to sleep, not after the film we just saw. The book we just read. Fear is one of the most primal human emotions, and one of the hardest to reason with and dispel. So why do we scare ourselves? It seems almost mad that we would frighten ourselves for fun, and ... Read more

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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Four o'clock in the morning, and the lights are on and still there's no way we're going to sleep, not after the film we just saw. The book we just read. Fear is one of the most primal human emotions, and one of the hardest to reason with and dispel. So why do we scare ourselves? It seems almost mad that we would frighten ourselves for fun, and
... Read more

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What's Wrong with Benevolence

Happiness, Private Property, and the Limits of Enlightenment

by David Stove ...

Is benevolence a virtue? In many cases it appears to be so. But when it comes to the enlarged benevolence” of the Enlightenment, David Stove argues that the answer is clearly no. In this insightful, provocative essay, Stove builds a case for the claim that when benevolence is universal, disinterested and external, it regularly leads to the forced redistribution of wealth, which in turn leads to ... Read more

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Is benevolence a virtue? In many cases it appears to be so. But when it comes to the enlarged benevolence” of the Enlightenment, David Stove argues that the answer is clearly no. In this insightful, provocative essay, Stove builds a case for the claim that when benevolence is universal, disinterested and external, it regularly leads to the forced redistribution of wealth, which in turn leads to
... Read more

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