LEADER 03631nam 22007455 450 001 9910482966603321 005 20230810172516.0 010 $a3-030-68604-3 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-68604-8 035 $a(CKB)4100000011881132 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6547252 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6547252 035 $a(OCoLC)1246582239 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-68604-8 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011881132 100 $a20210410d2021 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aEnergy, Ecocriticism, and Nineteenth-Century Fiction $eNovel Ecologies /$fby Barri J. Gold 205 $a1st ed. 2021. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2021. 215 $a1 online resource $cillustrations 225 1 $aPalgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine,$x2634-6443 311 $a3-030-68603-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a1. Introduction: Experiments in Novel Ecologies -- 2. Austen?s Emergent Ecologies -- 3. ?A Fundamentally Unheroic Kind of Story?: Jane Eyre, the liberal subject, and the problem of ecology -- 4. Energy, Evolution, Ecology -- 5. From the Marshes to the Garden: Toxicity and Closure in Great Expectations -- 6. Environmental Catastrophe, Provisional Disillusionment and The War of the Worlds. 330 $aEnergy, Ecocriticism, and Nineteenth-Century Fiction: Novel Ecologies draws on energy concepts to revisit some of our favorite books?Mansfield Park, Jane Eyre, Great Expectations, and The War of the Worlds?and the ways these shape our sense of ourselves as ecological beings. Barri J. Gold regards the laws of thermodynamics not solely as a set of physical principles, but also as a cultural and conceptual form that we can use to reimagine our historically vexed relationship to the natural world. Beginning with an examination of the parallel inceptions of energy and ecology in the mid-nineteenth century, this book considers the question of how we may better read and interpret our world, developing a recipe for experimental reading and insisting upon the importance of literary studies in a world driving to ecological catastrophe. . 410 0$aPalgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine,$x2634-6443 606 $aLiterature, Modern$x19th century 606 $aEcocriticism 606 $aScience$xHistory 606 $aHuman ecology$xHistory 606 $aMedicine and the humanities 606 $aCommunication in science 606 $aNineteenth-Century Literature 606 $aEcocriticism 606 $aHistory of Science 606 $aEnvironmental History 606 $aMedical Humanities 606 $aScience Communication 615 0$aLiterature, Modern$x19th century. 615 0$aEcocriticism. 615 0$aScience$xHistory. 615 0$aHuman ecology$xHistory. 615 0$aMedicine and the humanities. 615 0$aCommunication in science. 615 14$aNineteenth-Century Literature. 615 24$aEcocriticism. 615 24$aHistory of Science. 615 24$aEnvironmental History. 615 24$aMedical Humanities. 615 24$aScience Communication. 676 $a823.809 676 $a823.80936 700 $aGold$b Barri J.$f1966-$0851127 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910482966603321 996 $aEnergy, ecocriticism, and nineteenth-century fiction$91900323 997 $aUNINA