Haunting Ecologies (eBook)

Victorian Conceptions of Water

Ursula Kluwick (Autor)

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2024
272 Seiten
University of Virginia Press (Verlag)
978-0-8139-5099-0 (ISBN)

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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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.6.2024
• Reihe/Serie: Victorian Literature and Culture Series
• Reihe/Serie: Victorian Literature and Culture Series
• Zusatzinfo: 10 b&w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: adam bede • Anthropocene • aquatic agency • aquatic social space • Biopolitics • blue humanities • Bram Stoker • Charles Booth • Charles Dickens • Crime • Docks • Dracula • ecological haunting • Environmental Agency • Environmental Humanities • female drowning • Fog • gender roles • George Eliot • Gothic • hauntology • interdiscourse • John Hollingshead • John Mayhew • liquid selves • liquid substance • London • Mary Elizabeth Braddon • Material ecocriticism • mudflats • mudlarks • New Materialism • nineteenth-century Britain • Nineteenth-Century Literature • picturesque • pollution • Public Health • Rain • Realism • River Thames • sanitary reform • sensation novel • Sewers • shapes of water • Snow • Social Identity • Thames Torso murders • the mill on the floss • Transcorporeality • Transgression • Uncanny • Urban reform • vertical city • Victorian England • Water • Waterscapes • waterside population • Wilkie Collins
• ISBN-10: 0-8139-5099-6 / 0813950996
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8139-5099-0 / 9780813950990