Sky of Our Manufacture – The London Fog in British Fiction from Dickens to Woolf by Taylor, Jesse Oak;

The London Fog in British Fiction from Dickens to Woolf

Series: Under the Sign of Nature;

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Product details:

Edition number Reprint
Publisher MP–VIR Uni of Virginia
Date of Publication 30 March 2016
Number of Volumes Paperback

ISBN 9780813937939
Binding Paperback
No. of pages272 pages
Size 226x152x15 mm
Weight 376 g
Language English
Illustrations 14 black & white illustrations

Short description:

The smoke-laden fog of London is one of the most vivid elements in English literature. In this volume, Jesse Oak Taylor uses the depictions of the London fog in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century novel to explore the emergence of anthropogenic climate change. In the process, Taylor argues for the importance of fiction in understanding climatic shifts, environmental pollution, and ecological collapse.

Long description:

"The smoke-laden fog of London is one of the most vivid elements in English literature, richly suggestive and blurring boundaries between nature and society in compelling ways. In The Sky of Our Manufacture, Jesse Oak Taylor uses the many depictions of the London fog in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century novel to explore the emergence of anthropogenic climate change. In the process, Taylor argues for the importance of fiction in understanding climatic shifts, environmental pollution, and ecological collapse.

The London fog earned the portmanteau """"smog"""" in 1905, a significant recognition of what was arguably the first instance of a climatic phenomenon manufactured by modern industry. Tracing the path to this awareness opens a critical vantage point on the Anthropocene, a new geologic age in which the transformation of humanity into a climate-changing force has not only altered our physical atmosphere but imbued it with new meanings. The book examines enduringly popular works--from the novels of Charles Dickens and George Eliot to Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dracula, and the Sherlock Holmes mysteries to works by Joseph Conrad and Virginia Woolf--alongside newspaper cartoons, scientific writings, and meteorological technologies to reveal a fascinating relationship between our cultural climate and the sky overhead."

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