Novel environments : science, description, and Victorian fiction /

Novel Environments: Science, Description, and Victorian Fiction examines how description in the Victorian novel helped to shape our modern understanding of the environment.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Hildebrand, Jayne (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2023]
Subjects:	English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism. Environmental protection in literature. Roman anglais > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique. Environnement > Protection, dans la littérature. Environmental) SCIENCE. English fiction Environmental protection in literature Literature: history & criticism. Literature. 1800-1899 Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Intro
Title page
Copyright page
Acknowledgments
Contents
Introduction
The Discourse of Environment in the Victorian Sciences
Description's Dynamism
Victorian Ecocriticism and the Novel as Environment
Chapter Summaries
1. The Habitats of Mary Russell Mitford's Our Village
Natural Theology, the Habitat, and Descriptive Vivacity
"All Transplantable Things": Adaptation Narratives in Our Village
Mitford's Transplanted Meadows
2. George Eliot's Biological Media
The Organism-Environment Relationship in Mid-Victorian Organicist Thought
Environmental Desire in The Mill on the Floss
Middlemarch's Sympathetic Atmospheres
3. Thomas Hardy's Virtual Environments
Spencer's Psychological Environments
Virtuality Effects in The Woodlanders
The Novel as Virtual Environment
4. Robert Louis Stevenson's Islands and the Poetry of Circumstance
Limited Agency, Setting, and the Poetry of Circumstance
Circumstance and Active Description in Treasure Island
"Death to the optic nerve": Describing the Environment of Empire in The Wrecker and The Ebb-Tide
Coda: Immersed in the Environment
Bibliography
Index