LEADER 02700oam 22004334a 450 001 9910947813203321 005 20250120023349.0 010 $a9781638041665 010 $a1638041660 035 $a(CKB)37233043700041 035 $a(OCoLC)1484908208 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_131575 035 $a(EXLCZ)9937233043700041 100 $a20241214d2024 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aAfter London; or, Wild England / $fby Richard Jefferies ; edited and introduced by Michael Kramp and Sarita Jayanty Mizin 210 1$aBaltimore, Maryland :$cProject Muse,$d2024 210 4$dİ2024 215 $a1 online resource: $cillustrations (some color) 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 $aRichard Jefferies's After London; or, Wild England (1885) imagines an undetermined ecological event that devastates London and transforms England, its land, people, and wildlife. Told in two parts, Jefferies details the processes and effects of a "change" on individuals, their relationships, and their hopes. The story is divided into two parts and shared by an unidentified narrator from an unspecified future moment. In part II, the narrator details a brutal society seemingly devoid of the spirit of Victorian progress. In this updated critical edition, Michael Kramp and Sarita Jayanty Mizin provide a new scholarly apparatus for engaging with the narrative, its historical contexts, and its contemporary legacies, making the text accessible to diverse readers. They include diverse appendices, allowing teachers, students, and scholars the opportunity to explore After London's cultural importance to England's changing landscape, nineteenth century conceptions of climate and climate change, and Victorian fears of racial degeneration. In addition, they invite the readers to consider Jefferies's fiction with discussions about the fate of London, the stability of the Empire, and the changing roles of men and women in the Victorian period. Kramp and Jayanty Mizin illustrate the importance of After London to our broader understanding of the Anthropocene. 607 $aLondon (England)$vFiction 608 $aDystopian fiction. 608 $aAlternative histories (Fiction) 608 $aElectronic books. 676 $a823/.8 700 $aJefferies$b Richard$f1848-1887,$0679839 702 $aMizin$b Sarita Jayanty 702 $aKramp$b Michael 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910947813203321 996 $aAfter London; or, Wild England$94334041 997 $aUNINA