Victorian Writers and the Environment: Ecocritical by Laurence W. Mazzeno,Ronald D. Morrison
By Laurence W. Mazzeno,Ronald D. Morrison
Applying ecocritical idea to the paintings of Victorian writers, this assortment explores what a variety of ecocritical methods can supply scholars and students of Victorian literature, whilst that it reviews the overall effectiveness of ecocritical thought. Interdisciplinary of their technique, the essays absorb questions with regards to the nonhuman, botany, panorama, evolutionary technology, and faith. The participants forged a large internet by way of style, reading novels, poetry, periodical works, botanical literature, life-writing, and essays. Focusing on a wide variety of canonical and noncanonical writers, together with Charles Dickens, the Brontes, John Ruskin, Christina Rossetti, Jane Webb Loudon, Anna Sewell, and Richard Jefferies, Victorian Writers and the surroundings demonstrates the ways that nineteenth-century authors engaged not just with people’ interplay with the surroundings in the course of the Victorian interval, but in addition how a few authors expected newer attitudes towards the environment.
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