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Hensley / Steer Ecological Form

System and Aesthetics in the Age of Empire
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-0-8232-8214-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

System and Aesthetics in the Age of Empire

E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten

ISBN: 978-0-8232-8214-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)



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Introduction: Ecological Formalism; or, Love among the Ruins
Nathan K. Hensley and Philip Steer, 1

Part I Method

1. Drama, Ecology, and the Ground of Empire: The Play of Indigo
Sukanya Banerjee, 21

2. Mourning Species: In Memoriam in an Age of Extinction
Jesse Oak Taylor, 42

3. Signatures of the Carboniferous: The Literary Forms of Coal
Nathan K. Hensley and Philip Steer, 63

Part II Form

4. Fixed Capital and the Flow: Water Power, Steam Power, and The Mill on the Floss
Elizabeth Carolyn Miller, 85

5. “Form Against Force”: Sustainability and Organicism in the Work of John Ruskin
Deanna K. Kreisel, 101

6. Mapping the “Invisible Region, Far Away” in Dombey and Son
Adam Grener, 121

Part III Scale

7. How We Might Live: Utopian Ecology in William Morris and Samuel Butler
Benjamin Morgan, 139

8. From Specimen to System: Botanical Scale and the Environmental Sublime in Joseph Dalton Hooker’s Himalayas
Lynn Voskuil, 161

9. “Infi nitesimal Lives”: Thomas Hardy’s Scale Effects
Aaron Rosenberg, 182

Part IV Futures

10. Electric Dialectics: Delany’s Atlantic Materialism
Monique Allewaert, 203

11. Satire’s Ecology
Teresa Shewry, 223

Afterword: They Would Have Ended by Burning Their Own Globe
Karen Pinkus, 241

Acknowledgments 249

List of Contributors 251

Index 253


Hensley Nathan K. :
Nathan K. Hensley is Associate Professor of English at Georgetown University. He is the author of Forms of Empire: The Poetics of Victorian Sovereignty (2016).Steer Philip :
Philip Steer is Senior Lecturer in English at Massey University. His current book project is “Borders of Britishness: The Novel and Political Economy in the Victorian Settler Empire.”Pinkus Karen :
Karen Pinkus is Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature at Cornell University. She is the author of Fuel: A Speculative Dictionary (2016), Alchemical Mercury: A Theory of Ambivalence (2009), The Montesi Scandal: The Death of Wilma Montesi and the Birth of the Paparazzi in Fellini’s Rome (2003), Picturing Silence: Emblem, Language, Counter- Reformation Materiality (1996), and Bodily Regimes: Italian Advertising Under Fascism (1995).Hensley Nathan K. :
Nathan K. Hensley is Associate Professor of English at Georgetown University. He is the author of Forms of Empire: The Poetics of Victorian Sovereignty (2016).Steer Philip :
Philip Steer is Senior Lecturer in English at Massey University. His current book project is “Borders of Britishness: The Novel and Political Economy in the Victorian Settler Empire.”Voskuil Lynn :
Lynn Voskuil is Associate Professor of English at the University of Houston. She is the author of Acting Naturally: Victorian Theatricality and Authenticity (2004) and editor of Nineteenth- Century Energies: Literature, Technology, Culture (2016).Oak Taylor Jesse :
Jesse Oak Taylor is Associate Professor of English at the University of Washington. He is the author of The Sky of Our Manufacture: The London Fog in British Fiction from Dickens to Woolf (2016) and coeditor of Anthropocene Reading: Literary History in Geologic Times (2017).Shewry Teresa :
Teresa Shewry is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of Hope at Sea: Possible Ecologies in Oceanic Literature (2015) and coeditor of Environmental Criticism for the Twenty- First Century (2011).Rosenberg Aaron :
Aaron Rosenberg is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at King’s College London. His current book project is “Scale, Modernity, and the Novel: From Realism to the Genres of Deep Time.”Morgan Benjamin :
Benjamin Morgan is Associate Professor of English Language at the University of Chicago. He is the author of The Outward Mind: Materialist Aesthetics in Victorian Science and Literature (2017).Miller Elizabeth Carolyn :
Elizabeth Carolyn Miller is Professor of English at the University of California, Davis. She is the author of Slow Print: Literary Radicalism and Late Victorian Print Culture (2013) and Framed: The New Woman Criminal in British Culture at the Fin de Siècle (2008).Kreisel Deanna K. :
Deanna K. Kreisel is Associate Professor of English at the University of British Columbia. She is the author of Economic Woman: Demand, Gender, and Narrative Closure in Eliot and Hardy (2012).Grener Adam :
Adam Grener is Lecturer in English at Victoria University of Wellington. His current book project is “Improbable Realism: Chance, the Rise of Statistics, and the Nineteenth- Century British Novel.”Banerjee Sukanya :
Sukanya Banerjee is Associate Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee. She is the author of Becoming Imperial Citizens: Indians in the Late- Victorian Empire (2010) and coeditor of New Routes for Diaspora Studies (2012).Allewaert Monique :
Monique Allewaert is Associate Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She is the author of Ariel’s Ecology: Personhood and Colonialism in the American Tropics, 1760–1820 (2013).Karen Pinkus (Afterword By)
Karen Pinkus is Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature at Cornell University. She is the author of Fuel: A Speculative Dictionary (2016), Alchemical Mercury: A Theory of Ambivalence (2009), The Montesi Scandal: The Death of Wilma Montesi and the Birth of the Paparazzi in Fellini’s Rome (2003), Picturing Silence: Emblem, Language, Counter- Reformation Materiality (1996), and Bodily Regimes: Italian Advertising Under Fascism (1995).

Nathan K. Hensley (Edited By)
Nathan K. Hensley is Associate Professor of English at Georgetown University. He is the author of Forms of Empire: The Poetics of Victorian Sovereignty (2016).

Philip Steer (Edited By)
Philip Steer is Senior Lecturer in English at Massey University. His current book project is “Borders of Britishness: The Novel and Political Economy in the Victorian Settler Empire.”



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