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...

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Published in:Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment
Main Author: Johns-Putra, AG
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press 2015
Subjects:
Arctic
Climate change
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spelling ftusurrey:oai:epubs.surrey.ac.uk:807277 2023-05-15T14:59:41+02:00 Historicizing the Networks of Ecology and Culture: Eleanor Anne Porden and Nineteenth-Century Climate Change Johns-Putra, AG 2015-05-31 text 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 en English eng Oxford University Press http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/807277/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/isle/isv002 10.1093/isle/isv002 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 Johns-Putra, AG (2015) Historicizing the Networks of Ecology and Culture: Eleanor Anne Porden and Nineteenth-Century Climate Change ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, 22 (1). pp. 27-46. doi:10.1093/isle/isv002 attached Article PeerReviewed 2015 ftusurrey https://doi.org/10.1093/isle/isv002 2019-12-14T07:22:34Z 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. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Climate change University of Surrey, Guildford: Surrey Scholarship Online. Arctic Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 22 1 27 46
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description 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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