Ecological Form : System and Aesthetics in the Age of Empire /
"Ecological Form brings together leading voices in nineteenth-century ecocriticism to suture the lingering divide between postcolonial and ecocritical approaches. Together, these essays show how Victorian thinkers used aesthetic form to engage problems of system, interconnection, and dispossess...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
2019.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; ECOLOGICAL FORM; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; Introduction: Ecological Formalism; or, Love among the Ruins; Part I METHOD; 1. Drama, Ecology, and the Ground of Empire: The Play of Indigo; 2. Mourning Species: In Memoriam in an Age of Extinction; 3. Signatures of the Carboniferous: The Literary Forms of Coal; Part II FORM; 4. Fixed Capital and the Flow: Water Power, Steam Power, and The Mill on the Floss; 5. "Form Against Force": Sustainability and Organicism in the Work of John Ruskin; 6. Mapping the "Invisible Region, Far Away" in Dombey and Son; Part III SCALE.
- 7. How We Might Live: Utopian Ecology in William Morris and Samuel Butler8. From Specimen to System: Botanical Scale and the Environmental Sublime in Joseph Dalton Hooker's Himalayas; 9. "Infinitesimal Lives": Thomas Hardy's Scale Effects; Part IV FUTURES; 10. Electric Dialectics: Delany's Atlantic Materialism; 11. Satire's Ecology; Afterword: They Would Have Ended by Burning Their Own Globe; Acknowledgments; List of Contributors; Index.