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The sky of our manufacture : the London fog in British fiction from Dickens to Woolf
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| Format : | Thèse ou mémoire |
| Langue : | anglais |
| Titre complet : | The sky of our manufacture : the London fog in British fiction from Dickens to Woolf / Jesse Oak Taylor |
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Charlottesville, Va., London :
University of Virginia press
, 2016 |
| Description matérielle : | 1 vol. (XII-260 p.) |
| Collection : | Under the sign of nature |
| Note de thèse : | Texte remanié de : Thesis Ph. D : English literature : Madison (Wis.),University of Wisconsin : 2010 |
| Sujets : |
- Introduction ; The novel as climate model. Realism after nature: reading the greenhouse effect in Bleak House ; Specters of capital: our mutual friend and the economy of smog ; Affecting an atmosphere: George Eliot and the climate of history ;
- Abnatural supernaturalism. Being impure: Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and the polluted body ; The death is the life: Dracula and fossil fuels ; The science and fiction of detection in the global metropolis ;
- Climatic modernism. Planetary impressions: Joseph Conrad and the fiction of global connection ; Climatic modernism: Virginia Woolf and anthropocene literary history ; Epilogue: after London, or, metropolis earth.