Fuel: An Ecocritical History: Environmental Cultures
Autor Dr Heidi C. M. Scotten Limba Engleză Hardback – 12 iul 2018
Fuel: An Ecocritical History is the first book to chart our changing attitudes to fuel and energy through the literature and culture of the modern era, focusing on the 18th-century to the present. Reading a wide range of writers from Blake, Austen and Dickens to Upton Sinclair and Edward Abbey, Heidi Scott explores how our move from a pre-industrial reliance on biomass and elemental energy sources to our current dependence on the fossil fuels of coal, oil and natural gas have fundamentally shaped human identity and culture. The book's Anthropocene perspective reshapes our view of energy history and climate change, and Fuel looks forward to ways in which we can reimagine our culture away from the fossil fuel paradigm towards a more sustainable energy future driven by renewable, elemental energy.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781350053984
ISBN-10: 1350053988
Pagini: 328
Ilustrații: 14 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 mm
Greutate: 0.6 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Seria Environmental Cultures
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1350053988
Pagini: 328
Ilustrații: 14 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 mm
Greutate: 0.6 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Seria Environmental Cultures
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Cuprins
Introduction
i. New York City to Albany
ii. Fuel History
iii. Defining Fuel
iv. Energy Ontology
v. The Arc of Fuel
Part One: Biomass Fuels
1. Grass: Muscles Powered
i. The Country: The Past-ness of the Pastoral
ii. The City: Crosstown Traffic
iii. In Depth: Black Beauty
iv. Borderline Biomass: Peat and Whale Oil
2. Wood: Forests' Fires
i. Burning to Survive
ii. The Hospitable Blaze
iii. In Depth: Jane Austen
Part Two: Fossil Fuels
3. King Coal
i. Workhouse Workhorse
ii. The Big Smoke and Auld Reekie
iii. In Depth: Wuthering Heights and How Green Was My Valley
iv. Do the Locomotion
v. Horizon Gone: Mountaintop Removal Mining
4. Black Gold
i. Oil Ontology
ii. Gusher Gawkers
iii. Road Trip!
iv. Oil's Locales
v. Pastoral Oilfields: The Suburbs
vi. A Note on Natural Gas
5. Interlude: Human Food
Part Three: Primary Energy
6. The Elements Move
i. Breeze
ii. Flow
iii. Star
iv. Atom
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
i. New York City to Albany
ii. Fuel History
iii. Defining Fuel
iv. Energy Ontology
v. The Arc of Fuel
Part One: Biomass Fuels
1. Grass: Muscles Powered
i. The Country: The Past-ness of the Pastoral
ii. The City: Crosstown Traffic
iii. In Depth: Black Beauty
iv. Borderline Biomass: Peat and Whale Oil
2. Wood: Forests' Fires
i. Burning to Survive
ii. The Hospitable Blaze
iii. In Depth: Jane Austen
Part Two: Fossil Fuels
3. King Coal
i. Workhouse Workhorse
ii. The Big Smoke and Auld Reekie
iii. In Depth: Wuthering Heights and How Green Was My Valley
iv. Do the Locomotion
v. Horizon Gone: Mountaintop Removal Mining
4. Black Gold
i. Oil Ontology
ii. Gusher Gawkers
iii. Road Trip!
iv. Oil's Locales
v. Pastoral Oilfields: The Suburbs
vi. A Note on Natural Gas
5. Interlude: Human Food
Part Three: Primary Energy
6. The Elements Move
i. Breeze
ii. Flow
iii. Star
iv. Atom
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Recenzii
Scott provides a wealth of source material about the history of fuels in their specific context, using a wide range of literary texts to underscore her factual information.
Heidi Scott's important, wide ranging survey of anglophone literary production offers its title term as a fundamental determinant for cultural life. rich, variegated, and unfailingly intelligent . The elasticity of its approach to its primary texts, the generosity of its citation of prior work, and its solid organization all mean that it functions not just as a freestanding contribution in its own right, but as a kind of repository for other, future projects, an archive of possible critical production. In this sense Fuel will drive new work as though by a kind of hidden locomotive power, a generative capacity that we might as well call potential energy.
This scholarly and highly informative work deals with the various material cultures of the fuels that supply our basic energy needs, including biomass, fossil fuels, and primary renewable natural resources . Scott, a literature professor at the University of Maryland, brings a unique historical and literary approach to her topic. She incorporates analysis of such writers as Jane Austen and Charles Dickens to make a compelling case for the emerging discipline of energy humanities or energy ontology, which explores the shifts in human culture that have resulted from changing energy sources dating from the brink of industrialization to the present day. This book is unique in exploring a new interdisciplinary field that broadly considers human history, its evolution, and humanity's prospects for future survival. Summing Up: Recommended.
Indeed, an unfolding story of narrative agencies and natures/cultures is that of fuel. Heidi C. M. Scott's monograph ... contributes distinctively to burgeoning studies of petrocultures within the energy humanities, an interdisciplinary field focused on energy-society interconnections ... The monograph's accessible style will speak to a range of environmental audiences, from students to specialists.
Heidi Scott's important, wide ranging survey of anglophone literary production offers its title term as a fundamental determinant for cultural life. rich, variegated, and unfailingly intelligent . The elasticity of its approach to its primary texts, the generosity of its citation of prior work, and its solid organization all mean that it functions not just as a freestanding contribution in its own right, but as a kind of repository for other, future projects, an archive of possible critical production. In this sense Fuel will drive new work as though by a kind of hidden locomotive power, a generative capacity that we might as well call potential energy.
This scholarly and highly informative work deals with the various material cultures of the fuels that supply our basic energy needs, including biomass, fossil fuels, and primary renewable natural resources . Scott, a literature professor at the University of Maryland, brings a unique historical and literary approach to her topic. She incorporates analysis of such writers as Jane Austen and Charles Dickens to make a compelling case for the emerging discipline of energy humanities or energy ontology, which explores the shifts in human culture that have resulted from changing energy sources dating from the brink of industrialization to the present day. This book is unique in exploring a new interdisciplinary field that broadly considers human history, its evolution, and humanity's prospects for future survival. Summing Up: Recommended.
Indeed, an unfolding story of narrative agencies and natures/cultures is that of fuel. Heidi C. M. Scott's monograph ... contributes distinctively to burgeoning studies of petrocultures within the energy humanities, an interdisciplinary field focused on energy-society interconnections ... The monograph's accessible style will speak to a range of environmental audiences, from students to specialists.
Caracteristici
Covers
a
wide
range
of
writers
from
Austen,
Blake
and
Dickens
to
Upton
Sinclair
Notă biografică
Heidi C. M. Scott is Lecturer in English at the University of Maryland, USA. She is the author of Chaos and Cosmos: Literary Origins of Modern Ecology in the British Nineteenth Century (2014).