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04198aam a2200505 i 4500 001 4E8EEC2A2E0111EFA856D47D28ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240619010048 008 230512s2024 enk b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2023010507 020 $a 1032547669 020 $a 9781032547664 020 $a 0367420783 020 $a 9780367420789 035 $a (OCoLC)1379239691 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d YDX $d EAU $d DLC $d MUU $d NUI $d SILO 043 $a e-uk--- 050 00 $a PR468.E58 $b T35 2024 082 00 $a 820.9/353 $2 23/eng/20230512 100 1 $a Tait, Adrian, $e author. 245 10 $a Environmental justice in early Victorian literature / $c Adrian Tait. 264 1 $a Abingdon, Oxon ; $b Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, $c 2024. 300 $a x, 205 pages ; $c 25 cm. 490 1 $a Routledge studies in environmental justice 520 $a "This innovative new book combines environmental justice scholarship with a material ecocriticism to explore the way in which early Victorian literature (1837-1860) responded to the growing problem of environmental injustice. As this book emphasises, environmental injustice - simply, the convergence of poverty and pollution - was not an isolated phenomenon, but a structural form of inequality: a product of industrial modernity's radical reformation of British society, it particularly affected the working classes. As each chapter reveals in detail, this form of environmental inequality (or 'classism') drew sharply critical reactions from figures as diverse as Thomas Carlyle, Friedrich Engels, Charles Dickens, and John Ruskin, and from within the Chartist movement, as working-class writers themselves reacted to the hazardous realities of a divided society. But as this book also reveals, these writers recognised that a truly just society respects the needs of the nonhuman and takes account of the material world in all its own aliveness; even if only tentatively, they reached for a more inclusive, emergent form of justice that might address the social and ecological impacts of industrial modernity, an idea which is no less relevant today. This book represents an indispensable resource for scholars and students working in the fields of Victorian literature, environmental justice, and ecocriticism"-- $c Provided by publisher. 545 0 $a Adrian Tait is a UK-based independent scholar and ecocritic with a particular interest in Victorian literary responses to the impact of industrial modernity, and its relationship to questions of environmental and ecological injustice. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction : the Victorian experience of environmental justice -- Thomas Carlyle's 'condition-of-England question' -- Friedrich Engles, environmental classism, and 'social murder' -- Environmental determinism and the Chartist counter-narrative -- Seeking justice in Charles Dicken's Bleak house -- Beyond class, gender, species? Charles Dickens's Hard times -- John Ruskin's Unto this last : towards a 'deeper felicity' -- Conclusion : looking forward. 648 7 $a 1800-1899 $2 fast 650 0 $a English fiction $y 19th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Environmental justice in literature. 650 0 $a Environmental protection in literature. 650 0 $a Human ecology in literature. 650 0 $a Ecocriticism. 650 7 $a Ecocriticism $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00901428 650 7 $a English fiction $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00910817 650 7 $a Environmental justice in literature $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01903134 650 7 $a Environmental protection in literature $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00913429 650 7 $a Human ecology in literature $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00962998 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 776 08 $i Online version: $a Tate, Adrian. $t Environmental justice in early Victorian literature. $d Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2024 $z 9780367821609 $w (OCoLC)1379241938 $w (OCoLC)1379241938 830 0 $a Routledge studies in environmental justice 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20240619011059.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=4E8EEC2A2E0111EFA856D47D28ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search