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Willwerscheid, Jason.

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Political Ecologies of the Irish Fin de Siecle.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Political Ecologies of the Irish Fin de Siecle./
Author:	Willwerscheid, Jason.
Description:	208 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 74-07(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International74-07A(E).
Subject:	Literature, English. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3556145
ISBN:	9781267978868

Political Ecologies of the Irish Fin de Siecle.
Willwerscheid, Jason.

Political Ecologies of the Irish Fin de Siecle. - 208 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 74-07(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Irvine, 2013.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

The dissertation examines fin-de-siecle Ireland as a site for the emergence of political ecology. An irreducible combination of political and climatic factors, the trauma of the Great Irish Famine produced a sensitivity to politico-ecological catastrophe: while not purely meteorological, botanic, or epidemiological, neither was the Famine the sole effect of political designs, whether imperially interventionist or simply laissez faire . Two late nineteenth-century phenomena provided subsequent causes for concern: first, industrial air pollution in London and other urban centers raised the specter of environmental disaster on a planetary scale; second, evolutionary theory posited species extinction as the endpoint of human history, a prospect that was especially haunting in the wake of the Famine.

ISBN: 9781267978868Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017709
Literature, English.

Political Ecologies of the Irish Fin de Siecle.
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520 $a The dissertation examines fin-de-siecle Ireland as a site for the emergence of political ecology. An irreducible combination of political and climatic factors, the trauma of the Great Irish Famine produced a sensitivity to politico-ecological catastrophe: while not purely meteorological, botanic, or epidemiological, neither was the Famine the sole effect of political designs, whether imperially interventionist or simply laissez faire . Two late nineteenth-century phenomena provided subsequent causes for concern: first, industrial air pollution in London and other urban centers raised the specter of environmental disaster on a planetary scale; second, evolutionary theory posited species extinction as the endpoint of human history, a prospect that was especially haunting in the wake of the Famine.
520 $a The imbrication of politics and ecology rendered humanist notions of the individual and the collective obsolete. The dissertation considers four fin-de-siecle Irish writers whose work usefully elaborates politico-ecological structures able to take nonhumans as well as humans into account. The chapters are arranged telescopically, beginning at the level of the individual and the event, moving through processes of collective formation, and ending by considering relations among constituted collectives.
520 $a Chapter 1 reads texts by Oscar Wilde as efforts to think through the philosophical, historiographical, and dramaturgical consequences of air pollution and climate change, and concludes that Wilde stages subjectivity as the effect of networks which include both humankind and its environments. Chapter 2, on Bram Stoker's Dracula, is similarly interested in climatic effects, and interprets Dracula's transformations into wolves, bats, and fogs as Stoker's advocacy for collectives of weather patterns, animals, and sub- and superhumans who assemble on their own terms rather than at the behest of humankind.
520 $a The next two chapters turn from atmospheric to Darwinian notions of ecological crisis. Chapter 3 argues that J. M. Synge's interest in evolutionary theory results not in a fetishization of fitness, but in an appreciation of evolutionary difference: the tramps, tinkers, and outcasts of his plays are figures for species migration and cultural renewal. Finally, Chapter 4 suggests that Gregory's thematization of role-playing and children's games moves beyond a point of view which imagines all of life as regulated by agonistic competition, and instead envisions an ecology of carnivalesque becomings.
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