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Parham, John “‘For you, pollution’: The Victorian Novel and a Human Ecology. Disraeli’s Sibyl and Gaskell’s Mary Barton”. Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism (14). ISSN Print: 1468-8417 Online: 2168-1414
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Abstract
Catherine Gallagher, in The Body Economic: Life, Death, and Sensation in Political Economy and the Victorian Novel locates the interest of Victorian literature in its deconstruction of boundaries. Her notion of a ‘dialectical synthesis’, in the novel, between Victorian political economy and ‘the unique, nonfungible properties of things’ and ‘noninstrumental nature of people’ (2006: 1) might, in turn, inform a less dichotomous ecological theory that would substitute (broadly) romantic, deep ecology with a more dialectical understanding in which the now recognised complexity of ecological systems would extend to encompass the human realm including, ultimately, issues around environmental injustice.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | Pre publication draft of the article. |
| Subjects: | P Language and Literature > PE English |
| Divisions: | College of Arts, Humanities and Education > School of Humanities |
| Depositing User: | John Parham |
| Date Deposited: | 01 Oct 2012 10:22 |
| Last Modified: | 08 Jun 2021 09:26 |
| URI: | https://eprints.worc.ac.uk/id/eprint/1829 |
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