The sky of our manufacture : the London fog and British fiction from Dickens to Woolf / Jesse Oak Taylor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Taylor, Jesse O., author.

Series:

Under the Sign of Nature

Under the sign of nature: explorations in ecocriticism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.

English fiction.

English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

Smog in literature.

Ecology in literature.

London (England)--In literature.

London (England).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (200 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Charlottesville, Virginia ; London, [England] : University of Virginia Press, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Hyde, Dracula, and the Sherlock Holmes mysteries to works by Joseph Conrad and Virginia Woolf--alongside newspaper cartoons, scientific writings, and meteorological technologies to reveal a fascinating relationship between our cultural climate and the sky overhead. Under the Sign of Nature: Studies in Ecocriticism.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780813937946

0813937949

OCLC:

945630363