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04394aam a2200457 i 4500 001 4742736E0CD411EEAAE9666853ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230617010022 008 210517t20212021njua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2021008090 020 $a 0691205531 020 $a 9780691205533 020 $a 0691205264 020 $a 9780691205267 035 $a (OCoLC)1240576362 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d UKMGB $d YDX $d OBE $d OCLCO $d DLC $d ZLM $d IVU $d IaU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PR830.M56 $b M55 2021 082 00 $a 823/.809356 $2 23 084 $a TEC026000 $a TEC026000 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Miller, Elizabeth Carolyn, $d 1974- $e author. 245 10 $a Extraction ecologies and the literature of the long exhaustion / $c Elizabeth Carolyn Miller. 264 1 $a Princeton : $b Princeton University Press, $c [2021] 300 $a xiv, 285 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 25 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-261) and index. 505 00 $t "Riddles in the dark" : The Hobbit. $t "Mine-ridden" : Nostromo -- $t "The red deeps, where the buried joy seemed still to hover" : The Mill on the Floss -- $t "To teem with life" : Jane Rutherford : or, The Miner's Strike -- $t "Country of the old pits" : Hard Times -- $t "The habit of the mine" : Sons and Lovers -- $t Down and out : adventure narrative, extraction, and the resource frontier -- $t "A great neighbourhood for gold-mines" : Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands -- $t "A mine of suggestion" : Treasure Island -- $t "The secret stores of the empire" : Montezuma's Daughter -- $t "Trading, hunting, fighting, or mining" : King Solomon's Mines -- $t "To tear treasure out of the bowels of the land" : Heart of Darkness -- $t Worldbuilding meets terraforming : energy, extraction, and speculative fiction -- $t "Natural energetic agencies" : The Coming Race -- $t "We do not fight for a piece of diamond" : "Sultana's Dream" -- $t "A man from another planet" : News from Nowhere -- $t "Unpleasant creatures from below" : The Time Machine -- $t "Riddles in the dark" : The Hobbit. 520 $a "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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Mines and mineral resources in literature. 650 0 $a English fiction $y 19th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a English fiction $y 20th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Industrialization in literature. 650 7 $a English fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00910817 650 7 $a Industrialization in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00971847 650 7 $a Mines and mineral resources in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01022638 648 7 $a 1800-1999 $2 fast 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 655 7 $a Literary criticism. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01986215 655 7 $a Literary criticism. $2 lcgft 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117014637.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=4742736E0CD411EEAAE9666853ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search