Action Without Hope: Victorian Literature After Climate Collapse - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Chicago PressISBN-13:9780226838069ISBN-10:226838064UPC:9780226838069Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Modern, Semiotics & TheoryBook Topic:19th CenturySize:8.98 x 5.91 x 0.87 inchesWeight:1.1905Product ID:SC9FFT50ZH
Action Without Hope: Victorian Literature After Climate Collapse
A study of how writers from the early phases of our prolonged climate emergency used aesthetic strategies to redefine the category of action. What does it feel like to live helplessly in a world that is coming undone? Nathan Hensley turns to Victorian literature to uncover a prehistory of this deeply contemporary sense of powerlessness. For many in nineteenth-century Britain, their world seemed...
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Chicago PressISBN-13:9780226838069ISBN-10:226838064UPC:9780226838069Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Modern, Semiotics & TheoryBook Topic:19th CenturySize:8.98 x 5.91 x 0.87 inchesWeight:1.1905Product ID:SC9FFT50ZH
Nathan K. Hensley is associate professor of English at Georgetown University. He is the author of Forms of Empire: The Poetics of Victorian Sovereignty and coeditor, with Philip Steer, of Ecological Form: System and Aesthetics in the Age of Empire. He was born in Fresno, California, and lives in Silver Spring, Maryland.
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