Richard Jefferies, After London; or Wild England
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Edinburgh University Press
- Date of Publication 13 November 2018
- Number of Volumes Print PDF
- ISBN 9781474441315
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages256 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This new critical edition situates After London in a tradition of mid-late Victorian texts that respond to the evolutionary theories of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace and responds to a host of other key social, political, and cultural issues of the period.
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A scholarly edition of a significant and exciting late Victorian science fiction novel
Richard Jefferies? After London is uncanny and intriguing, an adventure story, quest romance, dystopia, and Darwinian novel rolled into one, but also a pioneering work of Victorian science fiction. Imagining a mysterious natural catastrophe that plunges its people into a barbaric future, Jefferies' remarkable novel drowns and destroys London and depicts a challenging ?Wild England? dominated by nature and filled with evolved animals and devolved humans. Of its time but also distinctively modern, After London can, in its uneasy expression of Victorian and post-Victorian anxieties about industrial development, urbanisation, natural resources, and climate, be regarded as one of the first novels of the Anthropocene.
This new critical edition provides one of the earliest examples of a global catastrophe novel that is part of a flowering of nineteenth-century science fiction. It situates After London in a tradition of mid-late Victorian texts that respond to the evolutionary theories of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace and responds to a host of other key social, political, and cultural issues of the period.
Key Features
Opens up readings that situate the text in relation to a range of literary, cultural and biographical contexts including Jefferies? life, ideas, and worksIncludes a chronology of Jefferies' life, a list of his key works, a detailed scholarly introduction, and appendices including the text of 'The Great Snow', a catastrophe short story set in London; and 'Alone in London'; both of which reveal his attitude to London, urban life and the future of humanity
Table of Contents:
INTRODUCTION2. FURTHER READING3. A RICHARD JEFFERIES CHRONOLOGY4. AFTER LONDON; OR WILD ENGLANDPart I The Relapse into BarbarismI THE GREAT FORESTII THE ANIMALSIII MEN OF THE WOODS IV THE INVADERSV THE LAKEPart II Wild EnglandI SIR FELIXII THE HOUSE OF AQUILAIII THE STOCKADEIV THE CANOEV BARON AQUILAVI THE FOREST TRACKVII THE FOREST TRACK ContinuedVIII THYMA CASTLEIX SUPERSTITIONSX THE FEASTXI AURORAXII NIGHT IN THE FORESTXIII SAILING AWAYXIV THE STRAITSXV SAILING ONWARDSXVI THE CITYXVII THE CAMPXVIII THE KING?S LEVYXIX FIGHTINGXX IN DANGERXXI A VOYAGEXXII DISCOVERIESXXIII STRANGE THINGSXXIV FIERY VAPOURSXXV THE SHEPHERDSXXVI BOW AND ARROWXXVII SURPRISEDXXVIII FOR AURORA 5. Notes on the text6. Appendices: supplementary writings by Richard Jefferies
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