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... Anthropocene terraforming urban ecology urban literature speculative fiction When we think of “the land” and its literary representations, what usually comes to mind are the rural landscapes of Thomas Hardy or Willa Cather, the wild landscapes of James Fenimore Cooper, the social meanings of land...

... organ- isms in the natural phenomena of an urban habitat. Though the term ecology itself would not have been available to him (it was coined in 1866), Dickens turns to the natural motif of the fog specifically to supersede the narrower discourse of economy, which would externalize the city’s...

... . “ Wuthering Heights and the Liverpool Slave Trade .” English Literary History 62 . 1 ( 1995 ): 171 – 96 . Walker Richard , and Moore Jason W. . “ Value, Nature, and the Vortex of Accumulation .” Urban Political Ecology in the Anthropo-Obscene . Ed. Ernstson H. and Swyngedouw...

... an intellectual world, but also between Hardy and the present? In response to this question, I will suggest that we must loosen historicism's grip on form in order to understand the significance of Hardy today. Rather than read Hardy genealogically as an “ecological” novelist with Raymond Williams, whose...

... of the militarization of California's urban culture. Like Butler, Davis perceives a sinister social order taking shape in this development. I borrow the term "privatopia" from McKenzie, whose study of homeowner associations and residential private communities illuminates the real historical context...

... with their surroundings, surroundings that include other bodies.3 Envisioning an embodied subject actively intertwined or bound up with its surrounding world,4 Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s phenomeno- logical view of selfhood suggests that humans are not nearly so separate from their ecological environment and from...

... with Them takes place in an East Los Angeles neighborhood that is isolated from the rest of the city by a network of freeways, bridges, and cemetery walls. Housing is dense, and the noise, pollution, and violence of urban and industrial life create a toxic ecology for the poor, abandoned, and often feared...

... urban space. I am ultimately interested in how these subjectivities inform various imaginations of futurity—catastrophic, deconstructive, and regenerative—within a country in which, as Imraan Coovadia has written, “the conditions for transcending the present are hardly to be conceived” (51). Copyright...

... shortcomings, the proliferation of speculative fiction that emerged out of the 1960s and 1970s drew attention to the present's failures to adequately address the projected problems humankind would have to face. One of the most pressing issues of the period was the threat of ecological collapse. Faced...

...” (40) and the creation of a “philosophical climate for the new ecology of the novel” (46). The rhetoric of providential teleology remains apparent, but its base is eroded. (Both run together, I would say, within the baggy apparatus whereby Hegel combines a manifest human—north European—destiny...

... : Blackwell , 2002 . 279 – 301 . Miller Elizabeth Carolyn . “ Drill, Baby, Drill: Extraction Ecologies, Open Temporalities, and Reproductive Futurity in the Provincial Realist Novel .” Victorian Literature and Culture 48 . 1 ( 2020 ): 29 – 56 . Miller Elizabeth Carolyn . Extraction...

... easily disregarded or undone by the husband who dominates her entire sphere of action, is her inefficacy dissociable from gender inequality and the institution of marriage? If Hardy's characters fail to challenge social norms or to become adequately learned and “urbane,” is this not at least partly...

.... If urban readers are made to share the vil- lage’s perception of space, then, it is also true that this space has been thoroughly gen- trified; as if Mitford had traveled forward in time, and discovered what city-dwellers will want to find in the countryside during a brief week-end visit.(39–42...

... by the eighteen-line run-on sentence. There are at least three reasons why this "flow" should be taken metaphori- cally as a stand-in for the social whole. First, the waterworks can be understood to reference civilization generally, and to reference the "Urban Revolution" (McClellan and Dorn 31...

... transformations it underwent in real life. Rather than being centered on an urban setting, such as the Lima of both Vargas Llosa's first novel and a subsequent one— Conversación en La Catedral ( 1969 ; translated as Conversation in The Cathedral , 1974)— The Green House unfolds over a much broader...

... widespread disciplinary conviction that modernism is most profitably grasped in the context of the rise of urban-industrial modernity, inquiry has subsequently crossed over into several new regions. On the one hand, interrogations of the existing canon have made room for explorations of previously...

... between the narrator as a proxy of the metropole and the literary establishment, and the observed subjects as the community outside of but always refracting the self-consciousness of modernity: “Part of the imaginative labor [of Firs ] is to produce coastal Maine as antithesis of 1890s urban modernity...

... one of Hardy's most famous characters, can be traced back to her environment (the rapidly changing countryside of an increasingly industrialized society) and to her inheritance (her family are the impoverished descendants of the d'Urbervilles, a name that already points to the urbanization of village...

... ), a “radical racial Jeremiad” ( Elam 765 ), a “wry postmodern noir ” ( Bérubé 163 ), a “not-quite-steampunk, alternative history of the future” ( Saldívar 7 ), and an “urban gothic” ( Liggins 1 ). It is fitting that a novel so intent on breaking apart epistemological structures should thoroughly resist...

... David Hart and Dzodzi Tsikata argue, Britain saw Ghana's ecological appeal not in the presence of bauxite deposits but in the possibility of powering a smelter using hydroelectricity, which would process bauxite imported from other British colonies, which would, in turn, allow Britain to become less...