Richard Jefferies, After London; or Wild England

Richard Jefferies (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

2018
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-4131-5 (ISBN)

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This new critical edition 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.

A scholarly edition of a significant and exciting late Victorian science fiction novel
Richard 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 Features
Opens 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

Mark Frost is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Portsmouth. He writes widely on environment, literature, and culture in the nineteenth century, and published The Lost Companions and John Ruskin’s Guild of St George in 2014. Recent and forthcoming works include studies of Ruskin, Charles Dickens, William Morris, Richard Jefferies, and ecology in late Victorian science fiction. His current research is focused on pastoral in Victorian fiction.

INTRODUCTION

2. FURTHER READING

3. A RICHARD JEFFERIES CHRONOLOGY

4. AFTER LONDON; OR WILD ENGLAND

Part I The Relapse into Barbarism

I THE GREAT FOREST

II THE ANIMALS

III MEN OF THE WOODS

IV THE INVADERS

V THE LAKE

Part II Wild England

I SIR FELIX

II THE HOUSE OF AQUILA

III THE STOCKADE

IV THE CANOE

V BARON AQUILA

VI THE FOREST TRACK

VII THE FOREST TRACK Continued

VIII THYMA CASTLE

IX SUPERSTITIONS

X THE FEAST

XI AURORA

XII NIGHT IN THE FOREST

XIII SAILING AWAY

XIV THE STRAITS

XV SAILING ONWARDS

XVI THE CITY

XVII THE CAMP

XVIII THE KING’S LEVY

XIX FIGHTING

XX IN DANGER

XXI A VOYAGE

XXII DISCOVERIES

XXIII STRANGE THINGS

XXIV FIERY VAPOURS

XXV THE SHEPHERDS

XXVI BOW AND ARROW

XXVII SURPRISED

XXVIII FOR AURORA

5. Notes on the text

6. Appendices: supplementary writings by Richard Jefferies

Erscheinungsdatum	10.12.2018
Reihe/Serie	Edinburgh Critical Editions of Nineteenth-Century Texts
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-4744-4131-9 / 1474441319
ISBN-13	978-1-4744-4131-5 / 9781474441315
Zustand	Neuware