Weird weather and changing climates, Hannah Wilson, Wilson
Автор: Armitt Lucie, Brewster Scott Название: Gothic Travel Through Haunted Landscapes: Climates of Fear ISBN: 1839980214 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781839980213 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 22990.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Gothic has often articulated fear as much through its depictions of weather, climate and landscape as it has through its typical monsters, and the relationship between geography, the environment and travel has been a persistent characteristic of the Gothic from its earliest moments. Gothic is an innately travelling mode of writing, and the literary fascination provoked by armchair travel is central to the navigation of cultural fears: 'strangeness' only becomes apparent once one exchanges the homely (Heimlich) for the uncanny in new or uncharted settings. This book will argue that what differentiates Gothic travel from all other kinds is the growing realisation that the terrain across which one journeys has become 'haunted' by what one finds there. At the same time, that encounter similarly transforms the traveller 'for good' whatever ghosts we encounter abroad follow us home and take root in our collective consciousness. This book therefore argues that Gothic literary travel plays a key role in giving expression to a range of very 'real' haunting anxieties. The strange and discomforting landscapes into which our reading propels us allow those anxieties to take form while, in turn, our experience of journeying through these landscapes enables us, in part, to confront the fears they provoke.
This book argues that the process and experience of travel in Gothic literature provides a unique perspective on recurring cultural preoccupations from the late-eighteenth century onward, ranging from concerns about climate change or the presence of the unseen to the negotiation of cultural difference and the apprehensions produced by various modes of modern transport. The book follows travellers who take many fictional forms - tourists, commuters, walkers, explorers, as well as the 'armchair' tourist or reader - as they encounter fascinating, curious and often disquieting weathers, climates, landscapes and topographies. Gothic travel epitomises the wonder, excitement, suspicion or incomprehension that arises from journeys through familiar and unfamiliar terrain. While exposure to the wild, elemental or primitive could produce the elevation of the sublime in early Gothic, increasingly the experience of travel raised unsettling questions about people and environments that lay beyond established frames of knowledge. Gothic travellers are haunted, never alone, and the experience of journeying through these landscapes provokes fears that may shadow them even after they have returned to home ground.
One of the reasons why Gothic literature remains as popular in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries as it has ever been, despite our lessening belief in the supernatural or the after-life, is because it continues to provide us with a mechanism for giving shape to otherwise formless but profound cultural concerns. The book questions, however, whether Gothic literature per se remains a source of fear (as it arguably was in its earliest phases), or whether it now provides a 'homeopathic' response to growing social, cultural and environmental anxieties which loom large in our consciousness. It tracks the ways in which Gothic literature, from the later eighteenth century to the present, has always propelled fictional travellers abroad into cultural landscapes which prove terrifying and unknowable, but also questions whether more recent literary portrayals ask different questions of their readers in relation to the environment, surveillance, (im)migration, the foreign and technological innovation, as viewed through the lens of travel. As this study will show, these expressions of fear speak loudly to our own time, and are manifested not only in contemporary Gothic literature but in the wider cultural discourse.
Описание: Professionally accredited author Shane Wolffe will show you how to cost-effectively build your home to be as much as 85 percent more energy efficient, even in extreme climates. Written for the average person, this book simplifies building principles that formed the foundation of the Passivhaus (Passive House) standard, a building standard that produces ultra-low energy buildings. These are principles pioneered and perfected in Saskatchewan, Canada - a province with one of the most extreme climates in the world, having temperatures ranging from -40 C (-40F) to 35 C (95F). If energy efficiency can be economically implemented in such a harsh climate, it can be done anywhere. You will learn how our society has created fossil fuel addicted buildings, why it's a massive problem, and what can be done about it. By exposing out-dated construction attitudes and revealing the powerful principles of energy efficient building in a simplified manner, the book illustrates and explains how the pioneers in the field have been building homes to save energy and construction costs for years. This information will empower you to build, or hire a contractor to build, energy efficiency into your new home, or even implement it into your existing home. If you would like to own a more comfortable, healthy, environmentally responsible and energy efficient home without having to change your lifestyle, then this book was written for you. As the climate warms, weather patterns become more erratic, and fuel prices rise, you will have the peace of mind knowing your home is truly Future Proof(TM).
The world's climate is changing as a direct result of human activity.
This book looks at what climate change is, the ways in which it is affecting our planet and suggests projects and ideas to encourage everyone to to do what they can to be greener, limit their own carbon footprints and make a difference.
Автор: Libby Leona Marshall Название: Past Climates: Tree Thermometers, Commodities, and People ISBN: 0292741294 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780292741294 Издательство: Marston Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 3166.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Описание: The Future of Heritage as Climates Change provides scholars, managers, policy makers and students with a much needed examination of heritage and climate change to help make critical decisions in the next several decades.
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