Extraction ecologies and the literature of the long exhaustion /
"How literature of the British imperial world contended with the social and environmental consequences of industrial mining. The 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...
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| Idioma: | inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
[2021]
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| Acceso en liña: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv1ks0c6z |
Table of Contents:
- Drill, baby, drill : extraction ecologies, futurity, and the provincial realist novel
- "Mine-ridden" : Nostromo
- "The red deeps, where the buried joy seemed still to hover" : The Mill on the Floss
- "To teem with life" : Jane Rutherford : or, The Miner's Strike
- "Country of the old pits" : Hard Times
- "The habit of the mine" : Sons and Lovers
- Down and out : adventure narrative, extraction, and the resource frontier
- "A great neighbourhood for gold-mines" : Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands
- "A mine of suggestion" : Treasure Island
- "The secret stores of the empire" : Montezuma's Daughter
- "Trading, hunting, fighting, or mining" : King Solomon's Mines
- "To tear treasure out of the bowels of the land" : Heart of Darkness
- Worldbuilding meets terraforming : energy, extraction, and speculative fiction
- "Natural energetic agencies" : The Coming Race
- "We do not fight for a piece of diamond" : "Sultana's Dream"
- "A man from another planet" : News from Nowhere
- "Unpleasant creatures from below" : The Time Machine
- "Riddles in the dark" : The Hobbit.