Action Without Hope (Record no. 70646)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780226838069
028 ## - DISTRIBUTOR NAME
Distributor Name : Raghav Books Pvt. Ltd.
Distributor address : 2/25 First Floor, Arun House, Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi
Bill Number : 3114
Bill Date : 3/8/2026
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 823.8 HEN
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Hensley, Nathan K.
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Action Without Hope
Remainder of title : Victorian Literature After Climate Collapse.
Statement of responsibility, etc / Nathan K. Hensley.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc , Chicago
Name of publisher, distributor, etc : University of Chicago Press
Date of publication, distribution, etc , 2025.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 359p.
Dimensions : 24cm.
365 ## - TRADE PRICE
Price amount 2367
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc What does it feel like to live helplessly in a world that is coming undone? Nathan Hensley turns to Victorian literature to uncover a prehistory of this deeply contemporary sense of powerlessness. For many in nineteenth-century Britain, their world seemed so scarred by human rapacity that restoring it seemed beyond the powers of any one individual. Like George Eliot’s characters in Middlemarch or the doomed lovers of Wuthering Heights, observers of the gathering carbon economy felt themselves ensnared by interlocked and broken systems. In the face of damage so vast and apparently irreversible, what could possibly be done?<br/><br/>To answer this question, Hensley shows that nineteenth-century writers and artists devised new ways to understand action—and hope. They rescaled action away from the grandly heroic and toward minor adjustments and collaborative interventions. They turned away from logical proofs and direct argumentation and instead called on aesthetic technologies like sonnets and fractured lyrics, watercolor sketches, and vast, multiplot novels, finding scope for action not at the level of the theme or the thesis but in gestures and details. Ranging from J. M. W. Turner’s painterly technique to Emily Brontë’s dreamlike fragments (and reading along the way works by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, H. G. Wells, Lewis Carroll, Gerard Manley Hopkins, William Berryman, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, and Christina Rossetti), Hensley’s study makes an important contribution to Victorian studies and the environmental humanities.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Literature
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Victorian Literature
700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Nathan K. Hensley.
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