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100			_aMiller, Elizabeth Carolyn, _d1974- _eauthor. _923103
245			_aExtraction ecologies and the literature of the long exhaustion / _cElizabeth Carolyn Miller.
260			_aPrinceton : _bPrinceton University Press, _c[2021]
300			_a1 online resource : _billustrations (black and white).
520			_aThe 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.
650			_aEnglish fiction _y19th century _xHistory and criticism. _923104
650			_aEnglish fiction _y20th century _xHistory and criticism. _923105
650			_aMines and mineral resources in literature. _923106
650			_aIndustrialization in literature. _923107
856			_uhttps://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691205533.001.0001
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