The Sky of Our Manufacture: The London Fog in British Fiction from Dickens to Woolf

by Jesse Oak Taylor

Book Overview

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. 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. In the process, Taylor argues for the importance of fiction...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813937930
• ISBN13: 9780813937939
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"