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Zusatztext Indeed, an unfolding story of narrative agencies and natures/cultures is that of fuel. Heidi C. M. Scott’s monograph ... contributes distinctively to burgeoning studies of petrocultures within the energy humanities, an interdisciplinary field focused on energy–society interconnections ... The monograph’s accessible style will speak to a range of environmental audiences, from students to specialists. Informationen zum Autor Heidi C.M. Scott is Lecturer in English at the University of Maryland, USA. She is the author of Chaos and Cosmos: Literary Origins of Modern Ecology in the British Nineteenth Century (2014).The first history of changing attitudes to fuel - from biomass to fossil fuels and renewable energy - in the literature and culture of the last 250 years. Zusammenfassung This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Fuel: An Ecocritical History is the first book to chart our changing attitudes to fuel and energy through the literature and culture of the modern era, focusing on the 18th-century to the present. Reading a wide range of writers from Blake, Austen and Dickens to Upton Sinclair and Edward Abbey, Heidi Scott explores how our move from a pre-industrial reliance on biomass and elemental energy sources to our current dependence on the fossil fuels of coal, oil and natural gas have fundamentally shaped human identity and culture. The book’s Anthropocene perspective reshapes our view of energy history and climate change, and Fuel looks forward to ways in which we can reimagine our culture away from the fossil fuel paradigm towards a more sustainable energy future driven by renewable, elemental energy. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introductioni. New York City to Albanyii. Fuel Historyiii. Defining Fueliv. Energy Ontologyv. The Arc of Fuel Part One: Biomass Fuels 1. Grass: Muscles Powered i. The Country: The Past-ness of the Pastoralii. The City: Crosstown Trafficiii. In Depth: Black Beauty iv. Borderline Biomass: Peat and Whale Oil2. Wood: Forests’ Firesi. Burning to Surviveii. The Hospitable Blaze iii. In Depth: Jane Austen Part Two: Fossil Fuels 3. King Coal i. Workhouse Workhorseii. The Big Smoke and Auld Reekieiii. In Depth: Wuthering Heights and How Green Was My Valley iv. Do the Locomotionv. Horizon Gone: Mountaintop Removal Mining4. Black Goldi. Oil Ontologyii. Gusher Gawkersiii. Road Trip!iv. Oil’s Localesv. Pastoral Oilfields: The Suburbsvi. A Note on Natural Gas5. Interlude: Human Food Part Three: Primary Energy 6. The Elements Movei. Breezeii. Flowiii. Stariv. AtomConclusionBibliographyIndex...
