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Record Nr.

UNINA9910798020003321

Autore

Taylor Jesse O.

Titolo

The sky of our manufacture : the London fog and British fiction from Dickens to Woolf / / Jesse Oak Taylor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Charlottesville, Virginia ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Virginia Press, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

0-8139-3794-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (200 p.)

Collana

Under the sign of nature: explorations in ecocriticism

Disciplina

823/.80936

Soggetti

English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism

English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

Smog in literature

Ecology in literature

London (England) In literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.