McCarthy / Schneider-Rebozo / Peters Conrad and Nature

A Collection of Essays
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-351-72136-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 336 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

From the shadowy wilderness of Africa in Heart of Darkness to the frozen expanse of Russia in Under Western Eyes, natural landscapes and human attitudes toward nature play an important part in the development and meaning of Joseph Conrad’s fiction. This collection of twelve original essays by established and emerging scholars, seeks to explore these landscapes in Conrad’s work and serves as a look into our own recent history at a pivotal time us as we come to realize how our actions, choices and even our mere presence directly impacts the natural world that delicately sustains us.

Autoren/Hrsg.

McCarthy, Jeffrey Mathes

Schneider-Rebozo, Lissa

Peters, John G.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Nature in Conrad, Conrad in Nature

Section 1: Earlier Commentary

Chapter 1: The Challenge of Bewilderment -- Paul Armstrong

Chapter 2: Gone Primitive -- Marianna Torgovnick

Chapter 3: The Future of Conrad’s Beginnings -- Geoffrey Harpham

Chapter 4: Poets of Reality -- J. Hillis Miller

Chapter 5: Conrad in the Nineteenth Century -- Ian Watt

Section 2: Nature and Modernity

Chapter 6: Conrad and Nature -- Hugh Epstein

Chapter 7: Nostromo and World Ecology -- Jay Parker

Chapter 8: Conrad’s Ecological Performativity -- Mark Deggan

Chapter 9: Form and Materiality in ‘The Tale’ -- Jarica Watts

Section 3: Theories of the Anthropocene

Chapter 10: Conrad’s Abnatural Ecology -- Jesse Oak Taylor

Chapter 11: Conrad in the Anthropocene -- Nidesh Lawtoo

Chapter 12: Dirty Weather -- Troy Boone

Chapter 13: The Destructive Element: Meteorology in Lord Jim -- Brendan Kavanagh

Section 4: Empire, Nature and the Novel

Chapter 14: The Monstrous and the Secure -- Robert Marzec

Chapter 15: Conrad’s Ecological Problem -- J.A. Bernstein

Chapter 16: Anti-Imperial Tropical Nature in Victory -- Samuel Perks

Chapter 17: Guano, Globalization and Ecosystem Change in Lord Jim -- Mark Larabee

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jeffrey Mathes McCarthy is the Director of Environmental Humanities and Professor of Honors at the University of Utah.

John G. Peters is a Distinguished Research Professor at the University of North Texas.

Lissa Schneider-Rebozo is a Professor of English and the Director of Undergraduate Research at the University of Wisconsin River Falls.