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Chaos and Cosmos: Literary Roots of Modern Ecology in the British Nineteenth Century - Brossura

Scott, Heidi C.

 
9780271063843: Chaos and Cosmos: Literary Roots of Modern Ecology in the British Nineteenth Century
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ISBN 10: 027106384X ISBN 13: 9780271063843
Casa editrice: Penn State University Press, 2014

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In Chaos and Cosmos, Heidi Scott integrates literary readings with contemporary ecological methods to investigate two essential and contrasting paradigms of nature that scientific ecology continues to debate: chaos and balance. Ecological literature of the Romantic and Victorian eras uses environmental chaos and the figure of the balanced microcosm as tropes essential to understanding natural patterns, and these eras were the first to reflect upon the ecological degradations of the Industrial Revolution. Chaos and Cosmos contends that the seed of imagination that would enable a scientist to study a lake as a microcosmic world at the formal, empirical level was sown by Romantic and Victorian poets who consciously drew a sphere around their perceptions in order to make sense of spots of time and place amid the globalizing modern world. This study’s interest goes beyond likening literary tropes to scientific aesthetics; it aims to theorize the interdisciplinary history of the concepts that underlie our scientific understanding of modern nature. Paradigmatic ecological ideas such as ecosystems, succession dynamics, punctuated equilibrium, and climate change are shown to have a literary foundation that preceded their status as theories in science. This book represents an elevation of the prospects of ecocriticism toward fully developed interdisciplinary potentials of literary ecology.

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Heidi C. M. Scott is Assistant Professor of English at Florida International University.

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Editore
Penn State University Press
Data di pubblicazione
2014
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
027106384X
ISBN 13 
9780271063843
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
220
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