The sky of our manufacture : the London fog and British fiction from Dickens to Woolf /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press,
2016.
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| Series: | Under the sign of nature.
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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.