TY - GEN T1 - Extraction ecologies and the literature of the long exhaustion A1 - Miller, Elizabeth Carolyn, 1974- LA - English PP - Princeton PB - Princeton University Press YR - 2021 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_dda_on1263875261 AB - "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 with a new vision of civilization where humans are dependent on finite, nonrenewable stores of earthly resources, and traces how the threatening horizon of resource exhaustion worked its way into narrative form.Britain was the first nation to transition to industry based on fossil fuels, which put its novelists and other writers in the remarkable position of mediating the emergence of extraction-based life. Miller looks at works like Hard Times, The Mill on the Floss, and Sons and Lovers, showing how the provincial realist novel's longstanding reliance on marriage and inheritance plots transforms against the backdrop of exhaustion to withhold the promise of reproductive futurity. She explores how adventure stories like Treasure Island and Heart of Darkness reorient fictional space toward the resource frontier. And she shows how utopian and fantasy works like "Sultana's Dream," The Time Machine, and The Hobbit offer imaginative ways of envisioning energy beyond extractivism.This illuminating book reveals how an era marked by violent mineral resource rushes gave rise to literary forms and genres that extend extractivism as a mode of environmental understanding"-- OP - 285 CN - PR830.M56 M55 2021 SN - 0691230552 SN - 9780691230559 SN - 9780691205267 SN - 9780691205533 SN - 0691205264 SN - 0691205531 KW - Mines and mineral resources in literature. KW - English fiction : 19th century : History and criticism. KW - English fiction : 20th century : History and criticism. KW - Industrialization in literature. KW - Roman anglais : 19e siècle : Histoire et critique. KW - Roman anglais : 20e siècle : Histoire et critique. KW - Industrialisation dans la littérature. KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century. KW - TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Mining. KW - English fiction KW - Industrialization in literature KW - Mines and mineral resources in literature KW - 1800-1999 KW - Electronic books. KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc. KW - Literary criticism KW - Literary criticism. KW - Critiques littéraires. ER -