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  • Radical Women and Gendered Environmental Inequality in the Novels of 1846-8

    by Adrian Tait ...
    Series series Ecocritical Theory and Practice
    This book aims to re-evaluate the Victorian literary response to forms of environmental injustice directly linked to the gendered identity of women. As ground-breaking feminist writers such as Elaine Showalter argued in the 1970s, the experience of many Victorian women was dominated by an ideology that constructed them as inferior members of society, even as it valorised them as 'Angels'. ... Read more

    $97.99 USD

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  • Errant Natures and Wayward Bodies in Late-Victorian Speculative Fiction

    by Adrian Tait ...
    Adrian Tait argues that late-Victorian stories represent an important but still neglected part of a green literary tradition, setting up a dialogue with modernity that is no less relevant today.Late-Victorian literature is full of fascinating examples of what was then called the “scientific romance,” an emerging form of science or speculative fiction whose concern with the liveliness – or ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Environmental Justice in Early Victorian Literature

    by Adrian Tait ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Environmental Justice
    This innovative new book combines environmental justice scholarship with a material ecocriticism to explore the way in which early Victorian literature (1837–1860) responded to the growing problem of environmental injustice.As this book emphasises, environmental injustice – simply, the convergence of poverty and pollution – was not an isolated phenomenon, but a structural form of inequality; a ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Victorian Ecocriticism

    The Politics of Place and Early Environmental Justice

    by Julie M. Barst, Natalie Rose Cox, Michelle J. Deininger, Sue Edney, Marlee Furhrmann, Jillmarie Murphy, Adrian Tait, Akemi Yoshida, Saeko Yoshikawa, Laura Dassow Walls ...
    Series series Ecocritical Theory and Practice
    Victorian Ecocriticism: The Politics of Place and Early Environmental Justice aims to take up the challenge that Lawrence Buell lays out in The Future of Environmental Criticism: Environmental Crisis and Literary Imagination (2005). Buell decries: “For in order to bring ‘environmental justice into ecocriticism,’ a few more articles or conference sessions won’t suffice. There must be ‘a fundamental ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Death and Garden Narratives in Literature, Art, and Film

    Song of Death in Paradise

    by Feryal Cubukcu, Nicolas Gaspers, Marguerite Gibson, Ekaterina Kochetkova, Frances Livings, Zennure Köseman, Sabine Planka, Isabelle Schwarz, Miriam Strieder0, Adrian Tait1, Philip van der Merwe2, Paul Venzo3 ...
    Death and Garden Narratives in Literature, Art and Film: Song of Death in Paradise explores the combination of two motifs, death and gardens, to show how the two subjects are intertwined and used in various media and cultural contexts. Using cultural, literary, film, and art history theories, the contributors analyze various death and garden sceneries in literary works by Arthur Machen, Agatha ... Read more

    $94.99 USD

  • Interrogating Boundaries of the Nonhuman

    Literature, Climate Change, and Environmental Crises

    by Matthias Stephan, Sune Borkfelt, Clare Archer-Lean, Anastasia Cardone, Kristen R. Egan, Owen Harry, Samantha Hind, Lauren O’Mahony, Adrian Tait0, Elizabeth Tavella1, Vera Veldhuizen2, Clare Wall3, Lauren E. Perry-Rummel4, Professor Mary Trachsel5 ...
    Series series Ecocritical Theory and Practice
    Interrogating Boundaries of the Nonhuman: Literature, Climate Change, and Environmental Crises asks whether literary works that interrogate and alter the terms of human-nonhuman relations can point to new, more sustainable ways forward. Bringing insights from the field of literary animal studies, a diverse and international group of scholars examine literary contributions to the ecological framing ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Arthur Machen

    Critical Essays

    by Francesco Corigliano, Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns, Justin Mullis, Jessica George, Kostas Boyiopoulos, Loredana Salis, Laura Mauro, Adrian Tait, Deborah Bridle, Geoffrey Reiter, Andrew R. Lenoir, Amanda M. Caleb, Emiliano Aguilar ...
    Arthur Machen: Critical Essays offers a study of the works by Arthur Machen (1863-1947), the Welsh writer who has attracted a cult following for decades, especially among fans and scholars of weird fiction and Gothic studies. These essays take readers into different areas and address several topics in Machen's literary production: the literary, the artistic, the scientific, the religious, the ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Aging Studies and Ecocriticism

    Interdisciplinary Encounters

    by Julia Hoydis, Anna-Christina Kainradl, Ulla Kriebernegg, Albert Banerjee, Simon Dickel, Katrina Dunn, Michaela Schrage-Früh, Silvia Gerlsbeck0, Stephen Hahn1, Julia Henderson2, Christian Lenz3, Tina-Karen Pusse4, Núria Mina-Riera5, Adrian Tait6, Nassim W. Balestrini8, Jade E. French9, Peter J. Whitehouse0 ...
    Series series Ecocritical Theory and Practice
    Aging Studies and Ecocriticism: Interdisciplinary Encounters argues that both aging studies and ecocriticism address the complex dynamics of individual and collective agency, oppression and dependency, care and conviviality, vulnerability and resistance as well as intergenerationality and responsibility. Yet, even though both fields employ overlapping methodologies and theoretical frameworks and ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

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  • Victorian Literature, Energy, and the Ecological Imagination

    by Allen MacDuffie ...
    Series Book 93 - Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
    Reading Victorian literature and science in tandem, Victorian Literature, Energy, and the Ecological Imagination investigates how the concept of energy was fictionalized - both mystified and demystified - during the rise of a new resource-intensive industrial and economic order. The first extended study of a burgeoning area of critical interest of increasing importance to twenty-first-century ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Women's work

    Labour, gender, authorship, 1750–1830

    by Jennie Batchelor ...
    Women’s work challenges influential accounts about gender and the novel by revealing the complex ways in which labour informed the lives and writing of a number of middling and genteel women authors publishing between 1750 and 1830.This book provides a particularly rich, yet largely neglected, seam of texts for exploring the vexed relationship between gender, work and writing. The four chapters ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Novel Judgements

    Legal Theory as Fiction

    by William P. MacNeil ...
    Series series Discourses of Law
    Novel Judgements is a book about nineteenth century Anglo-American law and literature. But by redefining law as legal theory, Novel judgements departs from ‘socio-legal’ studies of law and literature, often dated in their focus on past lawyering and court processes. This texts ‘theoretical turn’ renders the period’s ‘law-and-literature’ relevant to today’s readers because the nineteenth century ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Worlds Between

    Historical Perspectives on Gender and Class

    by Leonore Davidoff ...
    This book presents a series of pioneering studies which together constitute a reappraisal of our understanding of the relationship between gender and history. ... Read more

    $24.00 USD