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Richard Jefferies, After London; or Wild England
Mark Frost
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Description for Richard Jefferies, After London; or Wild England
Hardback. 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. Editor(s): Frost, Mark. Series: Edinburgh critical editions. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSK; FL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
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 ofVictorian and post-Victorian anxieties about industrial development, urbanisation, natural resources, and climate, be regarded as one of the first novels of ... Read more
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 ofVictorian and post-Victorian anxieties about industrial development, urbanisation, natural resources, and climate, be regarded as one of the first novels of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Series
Edinburgh critical editions
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781474402392
SKU
V9781474402392
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About Mark Frost
Mark Frost is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Portsmouth.
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