{"product_id":"victorian-ecocriticism-9781498551069","title":"Victorian Ecocriticism","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVictorian Ecocriticism: The Politics of Place and Early Environmental Justice aims to take up the challenge that Lawrence Buell lays out in The Future of Environmental Criticism: Environmental Crisis and Literary Imagination (2005). Buell decries: For in order to bring environmental justice into ecocriticism,' a few more articles or conference sessions won't suffice. There must be a fundamental rethinking and reworking of the field as a whole' (Buell 113). While discussions about nature conservation and preservation have been important within the context of ecocriticism, Buell asserts that the holy grail for the field is actually how literary critics engage in discourse about questions of place as space humanized for the purpose of tracing, disclosing, and advancing the important issue of environmental justiceas it applies to human beings, animals, and plants. The fundamental reworking or shift in the field of Victorian Studies really has to do with the dearth of ecocritical publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis collection of nine essays by a range of international scholars (supplemented with Hall’s helpful introduction) represents a substantial contribution to the growing body of ecocriticism focused on Victorian literature. Hall (California State Polytechnic, Pomona) takes up where he left off in his edited collection Romantic Ecocriticism: Origins and Legacies (CH, Dec'16, 54-1607), beginning with an essay on Wordsworth and the preservation of the English Lake District and going on to essays on Charlotte Brontë, Dickens, Hardy, and Trollope, among others. The volume is narrower in focus than Victorian Writers and the Environment, ed. by Laurence Mazzeno and Ronald Morrison (2017), but it complements that volume by focusing squarely on the significance of place and environmental justice in Victorian literature broadly defined, with about half the essays examining environmental conditions in Australia, Newfoundland, and the US. Though informed by recent ecocritical theory, the essays are accessible to serious readers. Highlights include Marlee Fuhrmann’s provocative essay “Seeing Soils,” which considers Thoreau and Frank Norris; Akemi Yoshida's eco-theological reading of Charles Kingsley’s The Water-Babies; and Michelle Deininger and Natalie Rose Cox's eco-gothic reading of Elizabeth Gaskell’s short fiction. Summing Up: Recommended. Undergraduates through faculty. * CHOICE *\u003cbr\u003eBreaking new ground with innovative ecocritical approaches to key Victorian-period texts from across the British Empire, Dewey Hall's new collection of ten sharp, theoretically engaged essays by early and established scholars from the U.S., UK, and Japan shows how ecological theories of place and belonging produce and are produced by questions of environmental justice--a timely and important contribution to our historical understanding of the role that literature played in the emergence of these two crucial modern environmental concepts. -- Drew Hubbell, Susquehanna University\u003cbr\u003eVictorian Ecocriticism: The Politics of Place and Early Environmental Justice offers a fascinating variety of perspectives upon the representation of place in Victorian literature. This engaging and eclectic collection of essays is distinctive in its focus upon themes of environmental justice that exemplify the social engagement of Victorian authors in their depiction of natural landscapes and human communities throughout the English-speaking world: from the British Isles to Australia, Newfoundland, and America. Each of these essays offers a fresh and original approach to understanding Victorian literature from an ecocritical point of view. -- James McKusick, University of Missouri-Kansas City\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword by Laura Dassow Walls  Part One: Place in the British Isles  Chapter 1 Introduction: The Matter of Place-Consciousness  Dewey W. Hall Chapter 2 Railways, Tourism, and Preservation in the Victorian Lake District: from Wordsworth to Rawnsley Saeko Yoshikawa Chapter 3 Wending Homeward: The Material Turn in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre Adrian Tait Chapter 4 Hard Times: Factory Education, Factory System, and the Preston Strike Dewey W. Hall   Chapter 5 The Politics of Place Attachment and the Laboring Body in Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles Jillmarie Murphy  Part Two: Place in Australia, Newfoundland, and America  Chapter 6 Antipodal Ecology: Colonial Landscaping in Victorian Fiction Julie M. Barst Chapter 7 Ecotheological Morality in Charles Kingsley’s The Water-Babies Akemi Yoshida Chapter 8 Philip Henry Gosse, Newfoundland, and the Unveiling of Wonders Sue Edney Chapter 9 Seeing Soils Marlee Fuhrmann Chapter 10 “Different shades of green”: Elizabeth Gaskell’s EcoGothic Short Fictions Michelle Deininger and Natalie Rose Cox","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040756040023,"sku":"9781498551069","price":76.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781498551069.jpg?v=1750947739","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/victorian-ecocriticism-9781498551069","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}