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Taylor Jesse O. |
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The sky of our manufacture : the London fog and British fiction from Dickens to Woolf / / Jesse Oak Taylor |
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Charlottesville, Virginia ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Virginia Press, , 2016 |
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©2016 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (200 p.) |
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Collana |
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Under the sign of nature: explorations in ecocriticism |
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Soggetti |
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English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism |
English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism |
Smog in literature |
Ecology in literature |
London (England) In literature |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction -- The novel as climate model. Realism after nature: reading the greenhouse effect in Bleak House -- Specters of capital: our mutual friend and the economy of smog -- Affecting an atmosphere: George Eliot and the climate of history -- Abnatural supernaturalism. Being impure: Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and the polluted body -- The death is the life: Dracula and fossil fuels -- The science and fiction of detection in the global metropolis -- Climatic modernism. Planetary impressions: Joseph Conrad and the fiction of global connection -- Climatic modernism: Virginia Woolf and anthropocene literary history -- Epilogue: after London, or, metropolis earth. |
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