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Energy, ecocriticism, and nineteenth-century fiction : novel ecologies / Barri J. Gold.
Van Pelt Library PR468.E34 G65 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gold, Barri J., 1966- author.
- Series:
- Palgrave studies in literature, science, and medicine
- Palgrave studies in literature, science and medicine
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- Literature and science--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Literature and science.
- Great Britain.
- History.
- Ecology in literature.
- Science in literature.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 215 pages ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Prologue
- Reading "Nature"
- What Words Have to Do with It, Or, the Bounds of Scientific Thought
- Ecological Beings
- Energy and Ecocriticism
- 2. Energy, Form, and the Novel
- The Laws of Thermodynamics
- The Forms of Energy
- Closed Systems, Open Ecologies
- The Individual
- Closure as Novelistic Form
- Reading with Energy
- 3. The Physics of Life: Darwin, Thomson, Joule, Boltzmann
- Resolvable Differences
- Ecological Entanglement
- Boltzmann's Chemical Kitchen
- The Machinery of Life
- What Is Waste?
- How Darwin Handles Waste
- Darwin's (Mis) Uses of Energy
- 4. Experimental Reading
- An Unperfected Recipe for Reading Novel Ecologies
- Trouble "Nature"; Presume Not Innocent
- Be Wary of Scarcity and Closure
- Follow the Energy
- Pursue Entanglement at Every Scale
- Multiply and Move Perspectives
- Flip the Metaphor
- Tou Do Tou
- 5. Austen's Emergent Energies: Mansfield Park
- pt. 1 Nature's Entanglements
- Romantic Nature
- The Taste of Apricots
- The Natural Look
- But What About the Wilderness?
- pt. 2 Before the Victorians
- Scarcity
- Energy and the Closed System
- Circumlocutions
- 6. Jane Eyre. From Heroic Energies to Sympathetic Ecologies
- (Dis)Closure
- Energy and Nature
- Independence and Mastery
- Heroic Energies, Imperial Fictions
- The Price of Independence
- The Way of the Heroine
- Close to the Borderline
- Hostile Environments
- Traitorous Energies
- Sympathetic Ecologies
- The Other Side of the Metaphor
- 7. Fictions of Closure and Toxic Obfuscation in Great Expectations
- Toxic Penetrations: Pip on the Marshes
- Fictions of Sufficiency
- Problems of Place
- Toxic Obfuscations
- Jaggers, The Great Obfuscator
- An Aside on Recycling: The Avenger
- Living in the Semiosphere
- Walworth Salad
- 8. Narrative Energies & The War of the Worlds
- pt. 1 Ecological Catastrophe
- Great Disillusionment
- Black Smoke
- Setting Suns & Malthusian Traps
- pt. 2 Narrative Troubles
- Tech Solutions
- In vasive Species
- We Are A11 Martians
- The Trouble with Apocalypse
- pt. 3 A Novel Experiment
- The Open Book'
- Rethinking the Individual
- Cognitive Dissonance, Perspectival Agility
- Shifting Alliances, Provisional Knowledge
- An Afterword on Closure.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Flora Haney Fund.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9783030686031
- 3030686035
- OCLC:
- 1242830279
- Publisher Number:
- 99988936349
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