Historicizing the Networks of Ecology and Culture: Eleanor Anne Porden and Nineteenth-Century Climate Change
This essay contends that historicized textual analysis must account for the interlaced cultural and environmental conditions of a text’s composition and publication. Focusing on Eleanor Anne Porden’s The Arctic Expeditions (1818) as a depiction of global climate change, I demonstrate the extent to w...
| Published in: | Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment |
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2015
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| Online Access: | http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/807277/3/SRI_deposit_agreement.pdf http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/807277/9/Johns%20Putra%202015%20Historicizing%20the%20networks%20of%20ecology.pdf https://doi.org/10.1093/isle/isv002 |
| Summary: | This essay contends that historicized textual analysis must account for the interlaced cultural and environmental conditions of a text’s composition and publication. Focusing on Eleanor Anne Porden’s The Arctic Expeditions (1818) as a depiction of global climate change, I demonstrate the extent to which discursive and ecological events are networked, and the significance of any given node within that network. I contextualize Porden’s poem within the polar publicity campaigns of Admiralty second secretary John Barrow and unprecedented ice-melt caused by the Tambora eruption in 1816, as well as alongside Porden’s quest for recognition as a woman of science and letters. |
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