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.
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| Titolo: |
The sky of our manufacture : the London fog and British fiction from Dickens to Woolf / / Jesse Oak Taylor
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| Pubblicazione: | Charlottesville, Virginia ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Virginia Press, , 2016 |
| ©2016 | |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| ISBN: | 0-8139-3794-9 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910807732903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Under the Sign of Nature