Extraction ecologies and the literature of the long exhaustion /
Miller, Elizabeth Carolyn, 1974-
Extraction ecologies and the literature of the long exhaustion / Elizabeth Carolyn Miller. - Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2021] - 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white).
The 1830s to the 1930s saw the rise of large-scale industrial mining in the British imperial world. Elizabeth Carolyn Miller examines how literature of this era reckoned with a new vision of civilization where humans are dependent on finite, nonrenewable stores of earthly resources, and traces how the threatening horizon of resource exhaustion worked its way into narrative form. Britain was the first nation to transition to industry based on fossil fuels, which put its novelists and other writers in the remarkable position of mediating the emergence of extraction-based life. Miller looks at works like 'Hard Times', 'The Mill on the Floss', and 'Sons and Lovers', showing how the provincial realist novel's longstanding reliance on marriage and inheritance plots transforms against the backdrop of exhaustion to withhold the promise of reproductive futurity.
9780691230559 (ebook) : No price
English fiction--History and criticism.--19th century
English fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
Mines and mineral resources in literature.
Industrialization in literature.
823.809356
Extraction ecologies and the literature of the long exhaustion / Elizabeth Carolyn Miller. - Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2021] - 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white).
The 1830s to the 1930s saw the rise of large-scale industrial mining in the British imperial world. Elizabeth Carolyn Miller examines how literature of this era reckoned with a new vision of civilization where humans are dependent on finite, nonrenewable stores of earthly resources, and traces how the threatening horizon of resource exhaustion worked its way into narrative form. Britain was the first nation to transition to industry based on fossil fuels, which put its novelists and other writers in the remarkable position of mediating the emergence of extraction-based life. Miller looks at works like 'Hard Times', 'The Mill on the Floss', and 'Sons and Lovers', showing how the provincial realist novel's longstanding reliance on marriage and inheritance plots transforms against the backdrop of exhaustion to withhold the promise of reproductive futurity.
9780691230559 (ebook) : No price
English fiction--History and criticism.--19th century
English fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
Mines and mineral resources in literature.
Industrialization in literature.
823.809356