Scale, Crisis, and the Modern Novel - Extreme Measures

"Vividly re-contextualising crises including deep time, globalization, evolution, and extinction, this study shows Wells, Hardy, Conrad and Woolf overturning novelistic realism to navigate changed realities."--

List of contents

Introduction: extreme measures; 1. Rescaling Romance: H. G. Wells; 2. Infinitesimal lives: Thomas Hardy's scale effects; 3. Joseph Conrad and the scalability of Empire; 4. Virginia Woolf and the problem of generations; Conclusion: welcome to the Psychozoic.

About the author

Aaron Rosenberg is Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in English at King's College London. His research focuses nineteenth and twentieth century literature, ecocriticism, and the environmental humanities.

Product details

• Authors: Aaron Rosenberg, Aaron (King''s College London) Rosenberg, Rosenberg Aaron
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.11.2023
• EAN: 9781009271776
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0927177-6
• No. of pages: 217
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Modernism, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literature: history and criticism, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Classic fiction: general and literary