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Haunting Ecologies - Ursula Kluwick

Haunting Ecologies

Victorian Conceptions of Water

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Buch | Softcover
272 Seiten
2024
University of Virginia Press (Verlag)
978-0-8139-5098-3 (ISBN)
CHF 52,25 inkl. MwSt
In the nineteenth century, water left its traces on politics, urban reform, societal divisions, and conceptualizations of gender roles. Drawing on the methodology of material ecocriticism, Ursula Kluwick argues that Victorian Britons were aware of aquatic agency, recognising water as an active force with the ability to infiltrate bodies and spaces.
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 conceptualizations of gender roles. Drawing on the methodology of material ecocriticism, Ursula Kluwick’s Haunting Ecologies argues that Victorian Britons were keenly aware of aquatic agency, recognizing water as an active force with the ability to infiltrate bodies and spaces.
    
Kluwick reads works by canonical writers such as Braddon, Dickens, Stoker, and George Eliot alongside sanitary reform discourse, court cases, journalistic articles, satirical cartoons, technical drawings, paintings, and maps. This wide-ranging study sheds new light on Victorian-era anxieties about water contamination as well as on how certain wet landscapes such as sewers, rivers, and marshes became associated with moral corruption and crime. Applying ideas from the field of blue humanities to nineteenth-century texts, Haunting Ecologies argues for the relevance of realism as an Anthropocene form.

Ursula Kluwick is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Bern, Switzerland, and coeditor of The Beach in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Victorian Literature and Culture Series
Zusatzinfo 10 b&w illus.
Verlagsort Charlottesville
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 235 mm
Gewicht 426 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Natur / Technik Natur / Ökologie
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10 0-8139-5098-8 / 0813950988
ISBN-13 978-0-8139-5098-3 / 9780813950983
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