Environmental Justice in Early Victorian Literature by Adrian... - 9781032547664

Environmental Justice in Early Victorian LiteratureAuthor(s): Adrian Tait\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032547664, 978-1032547664\nSynopsis\nThis innovative new book combines environmental justice scholarship with a material ecocriticism to explore the way in which early Victorian literature [tel] responded to the growing problem of environmental injustice. \n\nAs this book emphasises, environmental injustice simply, the convergence of poverty and pollution was not an isolated phenomenon, but a structural form of inequality; a product of industrial modernitys radical reformation of British society, it particularly affected the working classes. As each chapter reveals in detail, this form of environmental inequality (or classism) drew sharply critical reactions from figures as diverse as Thomas Carlyle, Friedrich Engels, Charles Dickens, and John Ruskin, and from within the Chartist movement, as working-clas.