Victorian literature, energy, and the ecological imagination /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	MacDuffie, Allen, 1975- (Author)
Corporate Author:	ebrary, Inc
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Series:	Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 93.
Subjects:	English literature > 19th century > History and criticism. Literature and science > England > History > 19th century. Conservation of natural resources in literature. Ecocriticism. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

The City and the Sun
The Heat Death of the Sun at the Dawn of the Anthropocene
Energy Systems and Narrative Systems in Charles Dickens's Bleak House
The Renewable Energies of Our Mutual Friend
John Ruskin's Alternative Energy
Personal Fantasy, Natural Limits : Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Joseph Conrad : Energy, Entropy, and the Fictions of Empire
Evolutionary Energy and the Future : Henry Maudsley and H.G. Wells.