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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Under the sign of nature: explorations in ecocriticismPublisher: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2016Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780813937939
  • 0813937930
  • 9780813937946
  • 0813937949
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Sky of our manufactureDDC classification:
  • 823/.80936 23
LOC classification:
  • PR878.S57 T39 2016eb
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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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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