Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.