The sky of our manufacture : the London fog in British fiction from Dickens to Woolf /

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Taylor, Jesse O.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2016.
Series:Under the sign of nature.
Subjects:
1800-1999
Ecology in literature.
Smog in literature.
English fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
Smog dans la littérature.
Roman anglais > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Roman anglais > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
English fiction.
Literature.
London (England) > In literature.
England > London.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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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