Book contents
- Victorian Literature, Energy, and the Ecological Imagination
- Series page
- Victorian Literature, Energy, and the Ecological Imagination
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Thermodynamics and its discontents
- Part II Unsustainable fictions
- Chapter 3 Energy systems and narrative systems in Charles Dickens’s Bleak House
- Chapter 4 The renewable energies of Our Mutual Friend
- Chapter 5 John Ruskin’s alternative energy
- Chapter 6 Personal fantasy, natural limits: Robert Louis Stevenson’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- Chapter 7 Joseph Conrad: energy, entropy, and the fictions of empire
- Chapter 8 Evolutionary energy and the future: Henry Maudsley and H. G. Wells
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 3 - Energy systems and narrative systems in Charles Dickens’s Bleak House
from Part II - Unsustainable fictions
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2014
- Victorian Literature, Energy, and the Ecological Imagination
- Series page
- Victorian Literature, Energy, and the Ecological Imagination
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Thermodynamics and its discontents
- Part II Unsustainable fictions
- Chapter 3 Energy systems and narrative systems in Charles Dickens’s Bleak House
- Chapter 4 The renewable energies of Our Mutual Friend
- Chapter 5 John Ruskin’s alternative energy
- Chapter 6 Personal fantasy, natural limits: Robert Louis Stevenson’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- Chapter 7 Joseph Conrad: energy, entropy, and the fictions of empire
- Chapter 8 Evolutionary energy and the future: Henry Maudsley and H. G. Wells
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Victorian Literature, Energy, and the Ecological Imagination , pp. 89 - 113Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2014