Slow violence and the environmentalism of the poor / / Rob Nixon |
Autore | Nixon Rob <1954-> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (371 p.) |
Disciplina | 820.9/36 |
Soggetto topico |
Commonwealth literature (English) - History and criticism
American literature - History and criticism Ecology in literature Environmentalism in literature Human ecology in literature Postcolonialism in literature Colonies in literature Ecocriticism Human security Poor - Developing countries Imperialism - Environmental aspects Globalization - Environmental aspects |
ISBN |
0-674-24799-X
0-674-06119-5 |
Classificazione | EC 1850 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Slow Violence, Neoliberalism, and the Environmental Picaresque -- 2. Fast-forward Fossil -- 3. Pipedreams -- 4. Slow Violence, Gender, and the Environmentalism of the Poor -- 5. Unimagined Communities -- 6. Stranger in the Eco-village -- 7. Ecologies of the Aftermath -- 8. Environmentalism, Postcolonialism, and American Studies -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- Backmatter |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910812236003321 |
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Victorian ecocriticism [[electronic resource]] : the politics of place and early environmental justice / / edited by Dewey W. Hall |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (192 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 820.9/36 |
Collana | Ecocritical Theory and Practice |
Soggetto topico |
Nature in literature
Ecocriticism English literature - 19th century - History and criticism |
ISBN |
1-4985-5107-6
9781498551076 (electronic book) |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910794917403321 |
Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2007 | ||
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Victorian ecocriticism [[electronic resource]] : the politics of place and early environmental justice / / edited by Dewey W. Hall |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (192 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 820.9/36 |
Collana | Ecocritical Theory and Practice |
Soggetto topico |
Nature in literature
Ecocriticism English literature - 19th century - History and criticism |
ISBN |
1-4985-5107-6
9781498551076 (electronic book) |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910809174503321 |
Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2007 | ||
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Victorian writers and the environment : ecocritical perspectives / / edited by Laurence W. Mazzeno and Ronald D. Morrison |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2017 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (269 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 820.9/36 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
MazzenoLaurence W
MorrisonRonald D |
Collana | Among the Victorians and modernists |
Soggetto topico |
English literature - 19th century - History and criticism
Ecocriticism - Great Britain Nature in literature Environmental protection in literature |
ISBN |
1-317-00201-6
1-315-54823-2 1-317-00202-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction: Practical ecocriticism and the Victorian text / By LAURENCE W. MAZZENO, RONALD D. MORRISON -- Chapter 1 Reading nature: John Ruskin, environment, and the ecological impulse / By MARK FROST -- Chapter 2 Between “bounded field” and “brooding star”: a study of Tennyson’s topography / By VALERIE PURTON -- Chapter 3 Celebration and longing: Robert Browning and the nonhuman world / By ASHTON NICHOLS -- Chapter 4 “Truth to nature”: the pleasures and dangers of the environment in Christina Rossetti’s poetry / By SERENA TROWBRIDGE -- Chapter 5 The zoocentric ecology of Hardy’s poetic consciousness / By CHRISTINE ROTH -- Chapter 6 Early Dickens and ecocriticism: the social novelist and the nonhuman / By TROY BOONE -- Chapter 7 Bleak intra-actions: Dickens, turbulence, material ecology / By JOHN PARHAM -- Chapter 8 Dark nature: a critical return to Brontë country DEIRDRE D’ALBERTIS -- Chapter 9 Anna Sewell’s Black Beauty: reframing the pastoral tradition / By ERIN BISTLINE -- Chapter 10 The environmental politics and aesthetics of Rider Haggard’s King Solomon’s Mines: capital, mourning, and desire / By JOHN MILLER -- Chapter 11 Jane Loudon’s wildflowers, popular science, and the Victorian culture of knowledge / By MARY ELLEN BELLANCA -- Chapter 12 Falling in love with seaweeds: the seaside environments of George Eliot and G. H. Lewes / By ANNA FEUERSTEIN -- Chapter 13 Agriculture and ecology in Richard Jefferies’s Hodge and His Masters / By and His Masters RONALD D. MORRISON -- Chapter 14 Edward Carpenter, Henry Salt, and the animal limits of Victorian environments / By JED MAYER |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910155128403321 |
London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2017 | ||
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The work of the sun [[electronic resource] ] : literature, science, and political economy, 1760-1860 / / Ted Underwood |
Autore | Underwood Ted |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (253 p.) |
Disciplina | 820.9/36 |
Soggetto topico |
English literature - 19th century - History and criticism
Politics and literature - Great Britain - History - 19th century Politics and literature - Great Britain - History - 18th century Literature and science - Great Britain - History - 19th century Literature and science - Great Britain - History - 18th century English literature - 18th century - History and criticism |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-281-36543-2
9786611365431 1-4039-8190-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; List of Illustrations; Introduction; 1 Light as Fluid Agency; 2 Energy and the Autonomy of Middle-Class Work; 3 Apollo, God of Enterprise; 4 Cowper's Spontaneous Task; 5 Wordsworth and the Homelessness of Engines; 6 Sunlight and the Reification of Culture; 7 Energy Becomes Labor: The Role of Engineering Theory; 8 Productivism and the Popularization of the First Law of Thermodynamics; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910451081003321 |
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The work of the sun [[electronic resource] ] : literature, science, and political economy, 1760-1860 / / Ted Underwood |
Autore | Underwood Ted |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (253 p.) |
Disciplina | 820.9/36 |
Soggetto topico |
English literature - 19th century - History and criticism
Politics and literature - Great Britain - History - 19th century Politics and literature - Great Britain - History - 18th century Literature and science - Great Britain - History - 19th century Literature and science - Great Britain - History - 18th century English literature - 18th century - History and criticism |
ISBN |
1-281-36543-2
9786611365431 1-4039-8190-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; List of Illustrations; Introduction; 1 Light as Fluid Agency; 2 Energy and the Autonomy of Middle-Class Work; 3 Apollo, God of Enterprise; 4 Cowper's Spontaneous Task; 5 Wordsworth and the Homelessness of Engines; 6 Sunlight and the Reification of Culture; 7 Energy Becomes Labor: The Role of Engineering Theory; 8 Productivism and the Popularization of the First Law of Thermodynamics; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910784212803321 |
Underwood Ted
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The work of the sun : literature, science, and political economy, 1760-1860 / / Ted Underwood |
Autore | Underwood Ted |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (253 p.) |
Disciplina | 820.9/36 |
Soggetto topico |
English literature - 19th century - History and criticism
Politics and literature - Great Britain - History - 19th century Politics and literature - Great Britain - History - 18th century Literature and science - Great Britain - History - 19th century Literature and science - Great Britain - History - 18th century English literature - 18th century - History and criticism |
ISBN |
1-281-36543-2
9786611365431 1-4039-8190-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; List of Illustrations; Introduction; 1 Light as Fluid Agency; 2 Energy and the Autonomy of Middle-Class Work; 3 Apollo, God of Enterprise; 4 Cowper's Spontaneous Task; 5 Wordsworth and the Homelessness of Engines; 6 Sunlight and the Reification of Culture; 7 Energy Becomes Labor: The Role of Engineering Theory; 8 Productivism and the Popularization of the First Law of Thermodynamics; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910827247003321 |
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