Victorian Literature, Energy, and the Ecological Imagination

ISBN: 9781107668089 出版年：2014 页码：324 Allen MacDuffie Cambridge University Press

Introduction: limited environments, fictions of escape Part I. Thermodynamics and its Discontents: 1. The city and the sun 2. The death of the sun at the dawn of the Anthropocene Part II. Unsustainable Fictions: 3. Energy systems and narrative systems in Charles Dickens's Bleak House 4. The renewable energies of Our Mutual Friend 5. John Ruskin's alternative energy 6. Personal fantasy, natural limits: Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde 7. Joseph Conrad: energy, entropy, and the fictions of empire 8. Evolutionary energy and the future: Henry Maudsley and H. G. Wells Bibliography.