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      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      26 October 2023
      09 November 2023
      ISBN:
      9781009271813
      9781009271776
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      0.44kg, 208 Pages
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    At 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radically beyond novelistic realism, repurposing the genres-romance, melodrama, gothic, and epic-it had ostensibly superseded.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.

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    Contents

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    • Scale, Crisis, and the Modern Novel
      pp i-i
    • Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture - Series page
      pp ii-ii
    • Scale, Crisis, and the Modern Novel - Title page
      pp iii-iii
    • Extreme Measures
    • Copyright page
      pp iv-iv
    • Dedication
      pp v-vi
    • Contents
      pp vii-vii
    • Figures
      pp viii-viii
    • Acknowledgments
      pp ix-x
    • Introduction
      pp 1-35
    • Extreme Measures
    • Chapter 1 - Rescaling Romance
      pp 36-56
    • H. G. Wells
    • Chapter 2 - Infinitesimal Lives
      pp 57-86
    • Thomas Hardy’s Economies of Scale
    • Chapter 3 - Joseph Conrad and the Scalability of Empire
      pp 87-112
    • Chapter 4 - Virginia Woolf and the Problem of Generations
      pp 113-135
    • Conclusion
      pp 136-143
    • Welcome to the Psychozoic
    • Notes
      pp 144-173
    • Works Cited
      pp 174-183
    • Index
      pp 184-188
    • Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture - Series page
      pp 189-196

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