{"title":"Professor Gerry Smyth","description":"\u003cp\u003eProfessor Gerry Smyth explores the intricate relationship between culture and identity, delving deep into how genre fiction reflects social and environmental themes. His work often considers the ways in which Englishness is constructed and contested through literary and cultural forms.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect thoughtful analyses that blend literary criticism with cultural studies, illuminating the intersections of place, history, and narrative. His scholarship offers a rich perspective for those interested in arts and culture within literary contexts.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"englishness-and-environment-in-genre-fiction-1890-1940-by-professor-gerry-smyth-9781350412477","title":"Englishness and Environment in Genre Fiction, 1890-1940","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn this moment of growing anxiety about the environment and the fate of humanity, literature continues its vital role of articulating dynamic new ways of thinking about the relations between humanity, environment and technology.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eEnglishness and Environment in Genre Fiction, 1890-1940\u003c\/em\u003e, cultural historian Gerry Smyth focuses on English genre fiction of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He explores the ways in which popular novelists of the period engaged with debates relating to environment (England), culture (English language and literature), and identity (Englishness).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn sixteen case studies, the author covers examples of fantasy, science fiction, murder mystery, and children’s stories in order to trace the prehistory of modern environmentalism, especially as experienced in a key 50-year period running up to the start of the Second World War.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eEnglishness and Environment in Genre Fiction, 1890-1940\u003c\/em\u003e offers new approaches to a variety of well-loved English novels, seeking and describing an unlikely but important alternative genealogy for both modern English literature and modern ecocriticism. Case studies include \u003cem\u003eThe Island of Dr Moreau\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eHeart of Darkness\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Wind in the Willows\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eCold Comfort Farm\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBrave New World\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Hobbit\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn these and other popular novels, Smyth examines themes such as evolution, industrialisation, the growth of technology, Britain’s fading imperial status, assaults on traditional discourses of class, gender and sexuality, animal rights, artificial intelligence and war. The central focus is on the ways in which popular genre authors responded to a variety of changes that were overtaking the idea of England itself during this period.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAccessible and innovative, this book reconfigures modern English literary history from an environmental perspective, insisting that questions of environment were always already embedded in the field of modern cultural debate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48241182376172,"sku":"9781350412477","price":54.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781350412477-englishness-and-environment-in-genre-fiction-1890-1940-1.jpg?v=1787935594"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/collections\/professor-gerry-smyth.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}