Richard Jefferies, After London; or Wild England

Medientyp: E-Book

Titel: Richard Jefferies, After London; or Wild England

Enthält: Frontmatter
Contents
Introduction
A Richard Jefferies Chronology
A Note on the Text
Part I The Relapse into Barbarism
CHAPTER I THE GREAT FOREST
CHAPTER II WILD ANIMALS
CHAPTER III MEN OF THE WOODS
CHAPTER IV THE INVADERS
CHAPTER V THE LAKE
Part II Wild England
CHAPTER I SIR FELIX
CHAPTER II THE HOUSE OF AQUILA
CHAPTER III THE STOCKADE
CHAPTER IV THE CANOE
CHAPTER V BARON AQUILA
CHAPTER VI THE FOREST TRACK
CHAPTER VII THE FOREST TRACK CONTINUED
CHAPTER VIII THYMA CASTLE
CHAPTER IX SUPERSTITIONS
CHAPTER X THE FEAST
CHAPTER XI AURORA
CHAPTER XII NIGHT IN THE FOREST
CHAPTER XIII SAILING AWAY
CHAPTER XIV THE STRAITS
CHAPTER XV SAILING ONWARDS
CHAPTER XVI THE CITY
CHAPTER XVII THE CAMP
CHAPTER XVIII THE KING’S LEVY
CHAPTER XIX FIGHTING
CHAPTER XX IN DANGER
CHAPTER XXI A VOYAGE
CHAPTER XXII DISCOVERIES
CHAPTER XXIII STRANGE THINGS
CHAPTER XXIV FIERY VAPOURS
CHAPTER XXV THE SHEPHERDS
CHAPTER XXVI BOW AND ARROW
CHAPTER XXVII SURPRISED
CHAPTER XXVIII FOR AURORA
Appendix 1 Richard Jefferies, ‘The Great Snow’ (fragment, 1876)
Appendix 2 Richard Jefferies, [‘Alone in London’] (Untitled fragment, undated MS, British Library, Add. MSS 58817)

Beteiligte: Jefferies, Richard [VerfasserIn]; Frost, Mark [VerfasserIn]

Erschienen: Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, [2022]

Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (256 p.)

Sprache: Englisch

DOI: 10.1515/9781474402408

ISBN: 9781474402408

Identifikator:

Schlagwörter: Literary Studies ; LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General

Entstehung:

Anmerkungen: In English

Beschreibung: A scholarly edition of a significant and exciting late Victorian science fiction novelRichard Jefferies’ After London is uncanny and intriguing, an adventure story, quest romance, dystopia, and Darwinian novel rolled into one, but also a pioneering work of Victorian science fiction. Imagining a mysterious natural catastrophe that plunges its people into a barbaric future, Jefferies remarkable novel drowns and destroys London and depicts a challenging ‘Wild England’ dominated by nature and filled with evolved animals and devolved humans. Of its time but also distinctively modern, After London can, in its uneasy expression of Victorian and post-Victorian anxieties about industrial development, urbanisation, natural resources, and climate, be regarded as one of the first novels of the Anthropocene. This new critical edition provides one of the earliest examples of a global catastrophe novel that is part of a flowering of nineteenth-century science fiction. It situates After London in a tradition of mid-late Victorian texts that respond to the evolutionary theories of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace and responds to a host of other key social, political, and cultural issues of the period.Key FeaturesOpens up readings that situate the text in relation to a range of literary, cultural and biographical contexts including Jefferies’ life, ideas, and worksIncludes a chronology of Jefferies' life, a list of his key works, a detailed scholarly introduction, and appendices including the text of 'The Great Snow', a catastrophe short story set in London; and 'Alone in London'; both of which reveal his attitude to London, urban life and the future of humanity

Zugangsstatus: Eingeschränkter Zugang | Informationen zu lizenzierten elektronischen Ressourcen der SLUB

Nur in Feld suchen:

Zuletzt gesuchte Begriffe: