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The sky of our manufacture : the London fog and British fiction from Dickens to Woolf
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- ISBN: 0813937922
- ISBN: 9780813937922
- ISBN: 0813937949
- ISBN: 9780813937946
- ISBN: 0813937930
- ISBN: 9780813937939
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Physical Description:
1 online resource.
remote - Publisher: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2016.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction -- The novel as climate model. Realism after nature: reading the greenhouse effect in Bleak House -- Specters of capital: our mutual friend and the economy of smog -- Affecting an atmosphere: George Eliot and the climate of history -- Abnatural supernaturalism. Being impure: Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and the polluted body -- The death is the life: Dracula and fossil fuels -- The science and fiction of detection in the global metropolis -- Climatic modernism. Planetary impressions: Joseph Conrad and the fiction of global connection -- Climatic modernism: Virginia Woolf and anthropocene literary history -- Epilogue: after London, or, metropolis earth. |
| Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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