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Scale, Crisis, and the Modern Novel : Extreme Measures by Aaron Rosenberg (2023, Hardcover)

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PublisherCambridge University Press

ISBN-101009271776

ISBN-139781009271776

eBay Product ID (ePID)23060633394

Product Key Features

Book TitleScale, Crisis, and the Modern Novel : Extreme Measures

Number of Pages217 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2023

TopicEuropean / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

IllustratorYes

GenreLiterary Criticism

AuthorAaron Rosenberg

Book SeriesCambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Length9.3 in

Item Width6.2 in

Additional Product Features

LCCN2023-024080

Dewey Edition23/eng/20230605

Series Volume NumberSeries Number 145

Dewey Decimal823/.809355

Table Of ContentIntroduction: extreme measures; 1. Rescaling Romance: H. G. Wells; 2. Infinitesimal lives: Thomas Hardy's scale effects; 3. Joseph Conrad and the scalability of Empire; 4. Virginia Woolf and the problem of generations; Conclusion: welcome to the Psychozoic.

SynopsisAt the turn of the twentieth century, novelists faced an unprecedented crisis of scale. While exponential increases in industrial production, resource extraction, and technological complexity accelerated daily life, growing concerns about deep time, evolution, globalization, and extinction destabilised scale's value as a measure of reality. Here, Aaron Rosenberg examines how four novelists moved radically beyond novelistic realism, repurposing the genres-romance, melodrama, gothic, and epic-it had ostensibly superseded. He demonstrates how H. G. Wells, Thomas Hardy, Joseph Conrad, and Virginia Woolf engaged with climatic and ecological crises that persist today, requiring us to navigate multiple temporal and spatial scales simultaneously. The volume shows that problems of scale constrain our responses to crisis by shaping the linguistic, aesthetic, and narrative structures through which we imagine it. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details., Vividly re-contextualising crises including deep time, globalization, evolution, and extinction, this study shows Wells, Hardy, Conrad and Woolf overturning novelistic realism to navigate changed realities. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.

LC Classification NumberPR871.R57 2023