Environmental Justice in Early Victorian Literature

Adrian Tait

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Routledge
30 August 2023

Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 ; Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers; Environmental factors; Environmentalist thought & ideology; Social impact of environmental issues; Environmental science, engineering & technology

Series: Routledge Studies in Environmental Justice

This innovative new book combines environmental justice scholarship with a material ecocriticism to explore the way in which early Victorian literature (1837–1860) responded to the growing problem of environmental injustice.

As this book emphasises, environmental injustice – simply, the convergence of poverty and pollution – was not an isolated phenomenon, but a structural form of inequality; a product of industrial modernity’s radical reformation of British society, it particularly affected the working classes. As each chapter reveals in detail, this form of environmental inequality (or ‘classism’) drew sharply critical reactions from figures as diverse as Thomas Carlyle, Friedrich Engels, Charles Dickens, and John Ruskin, and from within the Chartist movement, as working-class writers themselves reacted to the hazardous realities of a divided society. But as this book also reveals, these writers recognised that a truly just society respects the needs of the nonhuman and takes account of the material world in all its own aliveness; even if only tentatively, they reached for a more inclusive, emergent form of justice that might address the social and ecological impacts of industrial modernity, an idea which is no less relevant today.

This book represents an indispensable resource for scholars and students working in the fields of Victorian literature, environmental justice, and ecocriticism.

By: Adrian Tait
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9780367420789
ISBN 10: 0367420783
Series: Routledge Studies in Environmental Justice
Pages: 206
Publication Date: 30 August 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Adrian Tait is a UK-based independent scholar and ecocritic with a particular interest in Victorian literary responses to the impact of industrial modernity, and its relationship to questions of environmental and ecological injustice.

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Environmental Justice in Early Victorian Literature

Adrian Tait

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