Ecological Form: System And Aesthetics In The Age Of Empire, Paperback - Nathan K. Hensley
About The Philip Steer (Edited By) Philip Steer is Senior Lecturer in English at Massey University. Moving from the elegy and the industrial novel to the utopian romance, the scientific treatise, and beyond, Ecological Form demonstrates how nineteenth-century thinkers conceptualized the circuits of extraction and violence linking Britain to its global network. The authors reconsider Victorian literary structures in light of environmental catastrophe; coordinate "natural" questions with sociopolitical ones; and underscore the category of form as a means for generating environmental--and therefore political--knowledge. He is the author of Forms of Empire: The Poetics of Victorian Sovereignty (2016)
Hensley is Associate Professor of English at Georgetown University. Philip Steer (Edited By) Philip Steer is Senior Lecturer in English at Massey University. Moving from the elegy and the industrial novel to the utopian romance, the scientific treatise, and beyond, Ecological Form demonstrates how nineteenth-century thinkers conceptualized the circuits of extraction and violence linking Britain to its global network. She is the author of Fuel: A Speculative Dictionary (2016), Alchemical Mercury: A Theory of Ambivalence (2009), The Montesi Scandal: The Death of Wilma Montesi and the Birth of the Paparazzi in Fellini's Rome (2003), Picturing Silence: Emblem, Language, Counter- Reformation Materiality (1996), and Bodily Regimes: Italian Advertising Under Fascism (1995). Hensley (Edited By) Nathan K. He is the author of Forms of Empire: The Poetics of Victorian Sovereignty (2016). Nathan K. Together, these essays show how Victorian thinkers used aesthetic form to engage problems of system, interconnection, and dispossession that remain our own. His current book project is "Borders of Britishness: The Novel and Political Economy in the Victorian Settler Empire." DescriptionEcological Form brings together leading voices in nineteenth-century ecocriticism to suture the lingering divide between postcolonial and ecocritical approaches. Yet the book's most pressing argument is that this past thought can be a resource for reimagining the present.About the AuthorKaren Pinkus (Afterword By) Karen Pinkus is Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature at Cornell University. The authors reconsider Victorian literary structures in light of environmental catastrophe; coordinate "natural" questions with sociopolitical ones; and underscore the category of form as a means for generating environmental--and therefore political--knowledge.
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