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

by Heidi C M Scott

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271063831
• ISBN13: 9780271063836
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.5"