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OverviewAt the turn of the twentieth century, novelists faced an unprecedented crisis of scale. While exponential increases in industrial production, resource extraction, and technological complexity accelerated daily life, growing concerns about deep time, evolution, globalization, and extinction destabilised scale's value as a measure of reality. Here, Aaron Rosenberg examines how four novelists moved radically beyond novelistic realism, repurposing the genres-romance, melodrama, gothic, and epic-it had ostensibly superseded. He demonstrates how H. G. Wells, Thomas Hardy, Joseph Conrad, and Virginia Woolf engaged with climatic and ecological crises that persist today, requiring us to navigate multiple temporal and spatial scales simultaneously. The volume shows that problems of scale constrain our responses to crisis by shaping the linguistic, aesthetic, and narrative structures through which we imagine it. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Aaron Rosenberg (King's College London)Publisher: Cambridge University Press Imprint: Cambridge University Press Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9781009271776ISBN 10: 1009271776 Pages: 217 Publication Date: 09 November 2023 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationAaron Rosenberg is Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in English at King's College London. His research focuses nineteenth and twentieth century literature, ecocriticism, and the environmental humanities. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |