1st Edition
Victorian Sustainability in Literature and Culture
Edited By Wendy Parkins
Copyright 2018
244 Pages
by
Routledge
244 Pages
by
Routledge
244 Pages
by
Routledge
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From a growing awareness of the depletion of energy resources and the perils of environmental degradation to the founding of self-sufficient communities and the establishment of the National Trust, the concept of sustainability began to take on a new importance in the Victorian period. An emerging sense of the fragility and instability of human and natural resources, and the deeply complex... Read more
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Biography
Wendy Parkins is Professor of Victorian Literature and the Director of the Centre for Victorian Literature and Culture at the University of Kent, UK. She has published widely on William Morris, Charles Dickens, gender, and Victorian modernity and is the author of Jane Morris: The Burden of History (2013).
