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Animals in Victorian Literature and Culture : Contexts for Criticism / / edited by Laurence W. Mazzeno, Ronald D. Morrison
| Animals in Victorian Literature and Culture : Contexts for Criticism / / edited by Laurence W. Mazzeno, Ronald D. Morrison |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2017.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (IX, 289 p. 8 illus.) |
| Disciplina | 809.41 |
| Collana | Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature |
| Soggetto topico |
British literature
Literature, Modern—19th century Civilization—History Great Britain—History British and Irish Literature Nineteenth-Century Literature Cultural History History of Britain and Ireland |
| ISBN | 1-137-60219-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- Part I: Animals in the Victorians’ World -- 1. Ann C. Colley, “Collecting the Live and the Skinned” -- 2. Ronald D. Morrison, “Dickens, Household Words, and the Smithfield Controversy at the Time of the Great Exhibition” -- 3. Grace Moore, “‘Beasts, Birds, Fishes, and Reptiles’: Anthony Trollope and the Australian Acclimatization Debate” -- 4. Susan Hamilton, “Dogs’ Homes and Lethal Chambers, or, What was it like to be a Battersea Dog?” -- Part II: Animals in the Victorians’ Literature -- 5. Jennifer McDonell, “Bull’s-eye, Agency and the Species Divide in Oliver Twist: a Cur’s-Eye View” -- 6. Antonia Losano, “Performing Animals/Performing Humanity” -- 7. Monica Flegel, “‘I declare I never saw so lovely an animal!’: Beauty, Individuality, and Objectification in Nineteenth-Century Animal Autobiographies” -- 8. Susan Pyke, “Cathy’s Whip and Heathcliff’s Snarl: Control, Violence, Care, and Rights in Wuthering Heights” -- 9. John Miller, “Creatures on the ‘Night-Side of Nature’: James Thomson’s Melancholy Ethics” -- 10. Jed Mayer, “‘Come buy, come buy!’: Christina Rossetti and the Victorian Animal Market” -- 11. Kathyrn Yeniyurt, “Black Beauty: The Emotional Work of Pretend Play” -- 12. Elizabeth Effinger, “Insect Politics in Richard Marsh’s The Beetle” -- Sources for Further Study -- Editors and Contributors -- Index. . |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910164899803321 |
| London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Victorian Environmental Nightmares / / edited by Laurence W. Mazzeno, Ronald D. Morrison
| Victorian Environmental Nightmares / / edited by Laurence W. Mazzeno, Ronald D. Morrison |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2019.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2019 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (278 pages) |
| Disciplina |
820.9008
820.93609034 |
| Soggetto topico |
Literature, Modern—19th century
British literature Communication Environmental sciences Nineteenth-Century Literature British and Irish Literature Environmental Communication |
| ISBN | 3-030-14042-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 1. Introduction -- 2. Sara Atwood, “The Assumption of the Dragon: Ruskin’s Mythic Vision” -- 3. Mary Sanders Pollock, “Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Failed Pastoral and the Environments of the Poor” -- 4. Allen MacDuffie, “Pip’s Nightmare and Orlick’s Dream” -- 5. Ronald D. Morrison, “Frances Trollope’s Domestic Manners of the Americans and the EcoGothic” -- 6. John Miller, “James Thomson’s Deserts” -- 7. Susan K. Martin, “‘Tragic ring-barked forests’ and the ‘Wicked Wood’: Haunting Environmental Anxiety in Late Nineteenth-Century Australian Literature” -- 8. Alicia Carroll, “‘Rivers Change like Nations’: Reading Eco-Apocalypse in The Waters of Edera” -- 9. Naomi Wood, “Disaster and Deserts: Children’s Natural History as Nightmare and Dream” -- 10. Jade Munslow Ong, “Imperial Ecologies and Extinction in H. G. Wells’s Island Stories” -- 11. Shun Kiang, “Human Intervention and More-Than-Human Humanity in H. G. Wells’s The Island of Doctor Moreau” -- 12. Susan M. Bernardo, “Nowhere to Go: Caught Between Nature and Culture in Oscar Wilde’s Fairy Tales” -- 13. Mark Frost, “Ecocrisis and Slow Violence: Anthropocene Readings of Late-Victorian Disaster Narratives”. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910484299303321 |
| Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2019 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Victorian writers and the environment : ecocritical perspectives / / edited by Laurence W. Mazzeno and Ronald D. Morrison
| 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 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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