Extraction Ecologies and the Literature of the Long Exhaustion | Agenda Bookshop Skip to content
Online orders placed from 19/12 onward will not arrive in time for Christmas.
Online orders placed from 19/12 onward will not arrive in time for Christmas.
A01=Elizabeth Carolyn Miller
Age Group_Uncategorized
Age Group_Uncategorized
Author_Elizabeth Carolyn Miller
automatic-update
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=DS
Category=TTU
COP=United States
Delivery_Delivery within 10-20 working days
Language_English
PA=Available
Price_€50 to €100
PS=Active
softlaunch

Extraction Ecologies and the Literature of the Long Exhaustion

English

By (author): Elizabeth Carolyn Miller

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 novels 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 Sultanas 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.

See more
Current price €91.79
Original price €101.99
Save 10%
A01=Elizabeth Carolyn MillerAge Group_UncategorizedAuthor_Elizabeth Carolyn Millerautomatic-updateCategory1=Non-FictionCategory=DSCategory=TTUCOP=United StatesDelivery_Delivery within 10-20 working daysLanguage_EnglishPA=AvailablePrice_€50 to €100PS=Activesoftlaunch
Delivery/Collection within 10-20 working days
Product Details
  • Dimensions: 156 x 235mm
  • Publication Date: 12 Oct 2021
  • Publisher: Princeton University Press
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780691205267

About Elizabeth Carolyn Miller

Elizabeth Carolyn Miller is professor of English at the University California Davis. She is the author of Slow Print: Literary Radicalism and Late Victorian Print Culture and Framed: The New Woman Criminal in British Culture at the Fin de Siècle. Twitter @ecmille1

Customer Reviews

No reviews yet
0%
(0)
0%
(0)
0%
(0)
0%
(0)
0%
(0)
We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. If you continue we'll assume that you are understand this. Learn more
Accept