Environmental Justice in Early Victorian Literature

This book combines environmental justice scholarship with a material ecocriticism to explore how early Victorian literature responded to the growing problem of environmental injustice. An indispensable resource for scholars and students working in the fields of Victorian literature, environmental justice, and ecocriticism.

List of contents

Introduction: The Victorian experience of environmental injustice 1. Thomas Carlyle's 'Condition-of-England Question' 2. Friedrich Engels, environmental classism, and 'social murder' 3. Environmental determinism and the Chartist counter-narrative 4. Seeking justice in Charles Dickens's Bleak House 5. Beyond class, gender, species? Charles Dickens's Hard Times 6. John Ruskin's Unto this Last: Towards a 'deeper felicity' Conclusion: Looking forward

About the author

Adrian Tait is a UK-based independent scholar and ecocritic with a particular interest in Victorian literary responses to the impact of industrial modernity, and its relationship to questions of environmental and ecological injustice.

Summary

This book combines environmental justice scholarship with a material ecocriticism to explore how early Victorian literature responded to the growing problem of environmental injustice. An indispensable resource for scholars and students working in the fields of Victorian literature, environmental justice, and ecocriticism.

Product details

• Authors: Adrian Tait
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.12.2024
• EAN: 9781032547664
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3254766-4
• No. of pages: 206
• Series: Routledge Studies in Environmental Justice
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; NATURE / Ecology, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Nature, Environmental factors, Environmentalist thought & ideology, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Social impact of environmental issues, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Environmentalist thought and ideology