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Energy, Ecology, and Victorian Fiction
Article first published online: 2 FEB 2012
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-4113.2011.00870.x
© 2012 Blackwell Publishing Ltd
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Gold, B. J. (2012), Energy, Ecology, and Victorian Fiction. Literature Compass, 9: 213–224. doi: 10.1111/j.1741-4113.2011.00870.x
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Abstract
This article discusses the state of ecocritical thinking in Victorian literary scholarship. It proposes a distinctive Victorian ecocriticism, informed by thermodynamics, wherein we may understand the living and non-living, the biological and the physical to be both linguistically and energetically entangled.