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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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Autore: Taylor Jesse O. Visualizza persona
Titolo: The sky of our manufacture : the London fog and British fiction from Dickens to Woolf / / Jesse Oak Taylor Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Charlottesville, Virginia ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Virginia Press, , 2016
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Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (200 p.)
Disciplina: 823/.80936
Soggetto topico: English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism
English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism
Smog in literature
Ecology in literature
Soggetto geografico: London (England) In literature
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
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.
Titolo autorizzato: The sky of our manufacture  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8139-3794-9
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910466159803321
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Serie: Under the Sign of Nature