The smoke-laden fog of London is one of the most vivid elements in English literature, richly suggestive and blurring boundaries between nature and society in compelling ways.
Taylor, of Empowerment on an Unstable Planet: from Seeds of Human Energy to a Scale of Global Change..
Taylor and Carl E.
Under the Sign of Nature: Studies in Ecocriticism About the Author: Jesse Oak Taylor is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Washington and the coauthor, with Daniel C.
Hyde, Dracula, and the Sherlock Holmes mysteries to works by Joseph Conrad and Virginia Woolf--alongside newspaper cartoons, scientific writings, and meteorological technologies to reveal a fascinating relationship between our cultural climate and the sky overhead.
Jekyll and Mr.
The book examines enduringly popular works--from the novels of Charles Dickens and George Eliot to Dr.
Tracing the path to this awareness opens a critical vantage point on the Anthropocene, a new geologic age in which the transformation of humanity into a climate-changing force has not only altered our physical atmosphere but imbued it with new meanings.
The London fog earned the portmanteau "smog" in 1905, a significant recognition of what was arguably the first instance of a climatic phenomenon manufactured by modern industry.
In the process, Taylor argues for the importance of Fiction in understanding climatic shifts, environmental pollution, and ecological collapse.
In The Sky of Our Manufacture, Jesse Oak Taylor uses the many depictions of the London fog in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century novel to explore the emergence of anthropogenic climate change.
The smoke-laden fog of London is one of the most vivid elements in English literature, richly suggestive and blurring boundaries between nature and society in compelling ways
