Energy, Ecocriticism, and Nineteenth-Century Fiction

Energy, Ecocriticism, and Nineteenth-Century Fiction: Novel Ecologies draws on energy concepts to revisit some of our favorite books— Mansfield Park , Jane Eyre , Great Expectations , and The War of the Worlds —and the ways these shape our sense of ourselves as ecological beings. Barri J. Gold regards the laws of thermodynamics not solely as a set of physical principles, but also as a cultural and conceptual form that we can use to reimagine our historically vexed relationship to the natural wor