Titlebook: Victorian Environmental Nightmares; Laurence W. Mazzeno,Ronald D. Morrison Book 2019 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019

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Disaster and Deserts: Children’s Natural History as Nightmare and Dreamogy. Like other Victorian popular science, one goal is to integrate the claims of science with those of religion. But it does not do so by domesticating the natural world in any conventional sense. Earthquakes destroy towns and kill innocent people; volcanoes erupt, continents shift, and even a peac

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Imperial Ecologies and Extinction in H. G. Wells’s Island Storieshuman, animal, and plant colonization in the context of the British Empire. In both texts, humans, human-animal hybrids, previously extinct and non-native species colonize island locations, dramatically transforming their ecological structures. These new nightmare environments allow evolutionarily “

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Nowhere to Go: Caught Between Nature and Culture in Oscar Wilde’s Fairy Talesironment.” If pleasure is “nature’s test,” then both human and animal/natural figures in Wilde’s fairy tales routinely fail that test. Wilde’s three tales consistently explore alienation and destruction, subverting the genre not only in offering troubling endings that either restore vicious social o

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Ecocrisis and Slow Violence: Anthropocene Readings of Late-Victorian Disaster Narrativesm of London” (1892), and Grant Allen’s “The Thames Valley Catastrophe” (1897), this chapter examines one manifestation of an unprecedented outburst of literary violence against London in the last decades of the nineteenth century. In late-Victorian literature, imaginative assaults on the capital var

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Imperial Ecologies and Extinction in H. G. Wells’s Island Stories anti-Robinsonades that are grounded in the realities of Victorian colonial expansion, and in dialogue with scientific writings by Wells and Charles Darwin, this chapter shows how Wells questions scientific and imperialist narratives of development by presenting extinction as a possibility for all forms of life.

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work from authors as diverse as H.G. Wells and Elizabeth Ba.The twelve essays in .Victorian Environmental Nightmares .explore various “environmental nightmares” through applied analyses of Victorian texts. Over the course of the nineteenth century, writers of imaginative literature often expressed

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