TY - BOOK AU - MacDuffie,Allen ED - Cambridge eBooks. TI - Victorian literature, energy, and the ecological imagination T2 - Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture SN - 9781107587533 (ebook) AV - PR461 .M25 2014 U1 - 820.9/36 23 PY - 2014/// CY - Cambridge PB - Cambridge University Press KW - English literature KW - 19th century KW - History and criticism KW - Literature and science KW - England KW - History KW - Conservation of natural resources in literature KW - Ecocriticism KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015); The city and the sun -- The heat death of the sun at the dawn of the Anthropocene -- Energy systems and narrative systems in Charles Dickens's Bleak House -- The renewable energies of Our Mutual Friend -- John Ruskin's alternative energy -- Personal fantasy, natural limits : Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde -- Joseph Conrad : energy, entropy, and the fictions of empire -- Evolutionary energy and the future : Henry Maudsley and H.G. Wells N2 - Reading Victorian literature and science in tandem, Victorian Literature, Energy, and the Ecological Imagination investigates how the concept of energy was fictionalized - both mystified and demystified - during the rise of a new resource-intensive industrial and economic order. The first extended study of a burgeoning area of critical interest of increasing importance to twenty-first-century scholarship, it anchors its investigation at the very roots of the energy problem, in a period that first articulated questions about sustainability, the limits to growth, and the implications of energy pollution for the entire global environment. With chapters on Charles Dickens, John Ruskin, Robert Louis Stevenson, Joseph Conrad and H. G. Wells, Allen MacDuffie discusses the representation of urban environments in the literary imaginary, and how those texts helped reveal the gap between cultural fantasies of unbounded energy generation, and the material limits imposed by nature UR - http://ezproxy.alfaisal.edu/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107587533 ER -