Haunting Ecologies: Victorian Conceptions of Water

by Ursula Kluwick

Victorians' views of water and its role in how the social fabric of Victorian Britain was imagined

Water matters like few other substances in people's daily lives. In the nineteenth century, it left its traces on politics, urban reform, and societal divisions, as well as on conceptualizations of gender roles. Drawing on the methodology of material ecocriticism, Ursula Kluwick's Haunting Ecologies argues that Victorian Britons...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813950988
• ISBN13: 9780813950983
• Release Date: June 2024
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher