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Haunting ecologies : Victorian conceptions of water /

"Victorians' views of water and its role in how the social fabric of Victorian Britain was imagined Water matters like few other substances in people's daily lives. In the nineteenth century, it left its traces on politics, urban reform, and societal divisions, as well as on conceptua...

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Main Author:	Kluwick, Ursula, 1977- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2024.
Series:	Victorian literature and culture series.
Subjects:	English literature > 19th century > History and criticism. Water in literature. Pollution in literature. Water > Pollution > Great Britain > History > 19th century. Ecocriticism. Littérature anglaise > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique. Eau dans la littérature. Pollution dans la littérature. Écocritique. LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Nature. LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Gender Identity.

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