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Ecological Form : System and Aesthetics in the Age of Empire /

Ecological Form brings together leading voices in nineteenth-century ecocriticism to suture the lingering divide between postcolonial and ecocritical approaches. Together, these essays show how Victorian thinkers used aesthetic form to engage problems of system, interconnection, and dispossession th...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Allewaert, Monique, Banerjee, Sukanya, Grener, Adam, Hensley, Nathan K. (Editor ), Kreisel, Deanna K., Miller, Elizabeth Carolyn, Morgan, Benjamin, Oak Taylor, Jesse, Pinkus, Karen, Rosenberg, Aaron, Shewry, Teresa, Steer, Philip (Editor ), Voskuil, Lynn
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2018]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --  |t Contents --  |t Introduction. Ecological Formalism; or, Love Among the Ruins --  |t Chapter 1. Drama, Ecology, and the Ground of Empire The Play of Indigo --  |t Chapter 2. Mourning Species In Memoriam in an Age of Extinction --  |t Chapter 3. Signatures of the Carboniferous --  |t Chapter 4. Fixed Capital and the Flow --  |t Chapter 5. "Form Against Force" --  |t Chapter 6. Mapping the "Invisible Region, Far Away" in Dombey and Son --  |t Chapter 7. How We Might Live --  |t Chapter 8. From Specimen to System --  |t Chapter 9. "Infinitesimal Lives" --  |t Chapter 10. Electric Dialectics --  |t Chapter 11. Satire's Ecology --  |t Afterword. They Would Have Ended by Burning Their Own Globe --  |t Acknowledgments --  |t Contributors --  |t Index 
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