David Sergeant
Biographic Data
| ID | 198796 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Sergeant |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Sergeant |
| SIGNATURE | SERGEANT D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Plymouth |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1963 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
‘The Truth Was, Most Biodiversity Was Redundant’: Caring About Mass Extinction in Ned Beauman’s Venomous Lumpsucker
This essay reads Ned Beauman’s Venomous Lumpsucker as exploring the gap that exists between caring about mass species extinction and taking meaningful action to prevent it. The novel, at first, undermines the conventional reasons for caring; however, one of its protagonists is then revealed as having become willing to die for the issue. Equally, the reason for this change proves strangely hard to locate. This essay argues that the real reason for…
Period, Break, Form
This essay examines the relationship between novelistic form and a historical moment shaped by new technologies in Dave Eggers's The Circle (2013) and Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Moon (2018). In both, the novel form is itself positioned as a major counterforce against the malignant powers that are attempting to form the age. Also in both, new technologies are understood not as primary or independent shaping forces but as enabling components of a l…
Representing the Planet: Affect, Scale, and Utopia
The discourses of planetarity and globalization are both governed by the relationship between the maximal scale of the world and the subsidiary scalar levels that constitute it. However, if in globalization those subsidiary levels are envisioned as converging on a homogenous whole, in planetarity the aim is to maintain them in a dialogic relationality. On the face of it, such a recalibration seems relatively straightforward. However, the three no…
The Genre of the Near Future
This essay explores Kim Stanley Robinson’s fiction of the near future, New York 2140 (2017) and how its treatment of time and history relates to its generic identity. By imbricating present and future, New York 2140 resembles not so much science fiction, the genre commonly associated with the future, as the historical novel, inheriting from its nineteenth-century exemplars and moving beyond its postmodern incarnations. New York 2140 also proves i…
Meeting without knowing it: Kipling and Yeats at the fin de siècle
Meeting without knowing it: Kipling and Yeats at the fin de siècle." Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 54(4), pp. 574–575
Doris Lessing and the Forming of History
Lessing and the Scale of Environmental Crisis
The Worst Dreams That Ever I Have”: Capitalism and the Romance in R. L. Stevenson's Treasure Island
While in recent years there has been a slow accumulation of research exploring the links between Robert Louis Stevenson's work and capitalism, there remains a sense that this is still only an interesting byway when reading him, rather than a central route. Partly, this can be explained by this research having tended to focus on individual texts attached to specialised or circumscribed contemporary frames – the gold versus silver standard debate, …
Exploitation and conservation of Harp and Hood Seals
Great improvements have taken place in the last few years in the dressing of hair seal pelts for furs and the market for these furs has diversified and expanded. Consequently, the catching of hair seals of all species has intensified and the stocks of Harp Seals ( Pagophilus groenlandicus )and Hood Seals ( Cystophora cristata) of the North Atlantic, particularly, are under heavy pressure
Whaler's Eye, by Christopher Ash
Exploitation and conservation of Harp and Hood Seals
Great improvements have taken place in the last few years in the dressing of hair seal pelts for furs and the market for these furs has diversified and expanded. Consequently, the catching of hair seals of all species has intensified and the stocks of Harp Seals ( Pagophilus groenlandicus )and Hood Seals ( Cystophora cristata) of the North Atlantic, particularly, are under heavy pressure
Whaler's Eye, by Christopher Ash
Exploitation and conservation of Harp and Hood Seals
Great improvements have taken place in the last few years in the dressing of hair seal pelts for furs and the market for these furs has diversified and expanded. Consequently, the catching of hair seals of all species has intensified and the stocks of Harp Seals ( Pagophilus groenlandicus )and Hood Seals ( Cystophora cristata) of the North Atlantic, particularly, are under heavy pressure
Doris Lessing and the Forming of History
Lessing and the Scale of Environmental Crisis
The Worst Dreams That Ever I Have”: Capitalism and the Romance in R. L. Stevenson's Treasure Island
While in recent years there has been a slow accumulation of research exploring the links between Robert Louis Stevenson's work and capitalism, there remains a sense that this is still only an interesting byway when reading him, rather than a central route. Partly, this can be explained by this research having tended to focus on individual texts attached to specialised or circumscribed contemporary frames – the gold versus silver standard debate, …
Meeting without knowing it: Kipling and Yeats at the fin de siècle
Meeting without knowing it: Kipling and Yeats at the fin de siècle." Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 54(4), pp. 574–575
The Genre of the Near Future
This essay explores Kim Stanley Robinson’s fiction of the near future, New York 2140 (2017) and how its treatment of time and history relates to its generic identity. By imbricating present and future, New York 2140 resembles not so much science fiction, the genre commonly associated with the future, as the historical novel, inheriting from its nineteenth-century exemplars and moving beyond its postmodern incarnations. New York 2140 also proves i…
Representing the Planet: Affect, Scale, and Utopia
The discourses of planetarity and globalization are both governed by the relationship between the maximal scale of the world and the subsidiary scalar levels that constitute it. However, if in globalization those subsidiary levels are envisioned as converging on a homogenous whole, in planetarity the aim is to maintain them in a dialogic relationality. On the face of it, such a recalibration seems relatively straightforward. However, the three no…
Period, Break, Form
This essay examines the relationship between novelistic form and a historical moment shaped by new technologies in Dave Eggers's The Circle (2013) and Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Moon (2018). In both, the novel form is itself positioned as a major counterforce against the malignant powers that are attempting to form the age. Also in both, new technologies are understood not as primary or independent shaping forces but as enabling components of a l…
‘The Truth Was, Most Biodiversity Was Redundant’: Caring About Mass Extinction in Ned Beauman’s Venomous Lumpsucker
This essay reads Ned Beauman’s Venomous Lumpsucker as exploring the gap that exists between caring about mass species extinction and taking meaningful action to prevent it. The novel, at first, undermines the conventional reasons for caring; however, one of its protagonists is then revealed as having become willing to die for the issue. Equally, the reason for this change proves strangely hard to locate. This essay argues that the real reason for…
Art (5 works) · Art history (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Capitalism (2 works) · Contemporary Literature and Criticism (2 works)