Victorian Writers and the Environment: Ecocritical Perspectives

Victorian Writers and the Environment: Ecocritical Perspectives
ISBN-10
1317002016
ISBN-13
9781317002017
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
260
Language
English
Published
2016-12-08
Publisher
Routledge
Authors
Laurence W. Mazzeno, Ronald D. Morrison

Description

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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