Scale, Crisis, and the Modern Novel : Extreme Measures Hardback
by Aaron (King's College London) Rosenberg
Part of the Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture series
Hardback
Description
At the turn of the twentieth century, novelists faced an unprecedented crisis of scale.
While exponential increases in industrial production, resource extraction, and technological complexity accelerated daily life, growing concerns about deep time, evolution, globalization, and extinction destabilised scale's value as a measure of reality.
Here, Aaron Rosenberg examines how four novelists moved radically beyond novelistic realism, repurposing the genres-romance, melodrama, gothic, and epic-it had ostensibly superseded.
He demonstrates how H. G. Wells, Thomas Hardy, Joseph Conrad, and Virginia Woolf engaged with climatic and ecological crises that persist today, requiring us to navigate multiple temporal and spatial scales simultaneously.
The volume shows that problems of scale constrain our responses to crisis by shaping the linguistic, aesthetic, and narrative structures through which we imagine it.
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:217 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:09/11/2023
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- ISBN:9781009271776
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:217 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:09/11/2023
- Category:
- ISBN:9781009271776
