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Book/Printed Material Ecological form : system and aesthetics in the age of empire

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Title

  • Ecological form : system and aesthetics in the age of empire

Names

  • Hensley, Nathan K., editor.
  • Steer, Philip, 1979- editor.

Created / Published

  • New York : Fordham University Press, 2019.

Contents

  • Introduction : ecological formalism; or, Love among the ruins / Nathan K. Hensley and Philip Steer -- Drama, ecology, and the ground of empire : the play of indigo / Sukanya Banerjee -- Mourning species : in memoriam in an age of extinction / Jesse Oak Taylor -- Signatures of the carboniferous : the literary forms of coal / Nathan K. Hensley and Philip Steer -- Fixed capital and the flow : water power, steam power, and The mill on the floss / Elizabeth Carolyn Miller -- "Form against force" : sustainability and organicism in the work of John Ruskin / Deanna K. Kreisel -- Mapping the "invisible region, far away" in Dombey and Son / Adam Grener -- How we might live : utopian ecology in William Morris and Samuel Butler / Benjamin Morgan -- From specimen to system : botanical scale and the environmental sublime in Joseph Dalton Hooker's Himalayas / Lynn Voskuil -- "Infinitesimal lives" : Thomas Hardy's scale effects / Aaron Rosenberg -- Electric dialectics : Delany's Atlantic materialism / Monique Allewaert -- Satire's ecology / Teresa Shewry -- Afterword : "they would have ended by burning their own Globe" / Karen Pinkus.

Headings

  • -  English literature--19th century--History and criticism
  • -  Ecology in literature
  • -  Industrial revolution in literature

Notes

  • -  Includes bibliographical references and index.
  • -  Description based on print version record; resource not viewed.

Medium

  • 1 electronic resource (pages cm)

Call Number/Physical Location

  • PR468.E34

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2019667976

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  • Unrestricted online access

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  • pdf

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Chicago citation style:

Steer, Philip, Editor. Ecological Form: System and Aesthetics in the Age of Empire. editeds by Hensley, Nathan K New York: Fordham University Press, 2019. Pdf. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2019667976/.

APA citation style:

Steer, P., Hensley, N. K., ed. (2019) Ecological Form: System and Aesthetics in the Age of Empire. New York: Fordham University Press. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2019667976/.

MLA citation style:

Steer, Philip, Editor. Ecological Form: System and Aesthetics in the Age of Empire. ed by Hensley, Nathan K New York: Fordham University Press, 2019. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2019667976/>.