Elizabeth Carolyn Miller
Biographic Data
| ID | 387169 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth Carolyn Miller |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth Carolyn |
| FAMILY NAME | Miller |
| SIGNATURE | MILLER E C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Davis |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7509-2665 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Commodities and Literature
Global commodities, from tea and sugar to coal and oil, have had an enduring presence in literary texts. Commodity cultures have also shaped literary ones, from the early influence of the literary coffeehouse to the serial novels facilitated by print's own emergence as a mass commodity. This book offers an accessible overview of the many intersections between literature and commodities. Tracing the stories of goods as diverse as coffee, rum, opiu…
The Stepping Stones of Empire”: Conrad, Coal, and Oceanic Infrastructure
The political geography of empire transformed with the Victorian rise of steam power and its infrastructure, especially with the emerging dominance of steam as the primary means of transoceanic travel and shipping. Oceanic infrastructure was a new feature of the British Empire especially in the period after 1860, when steamships were increasingly replacing sailing ships and when the material exigencies of fueling and refueling required the instal…
The Machines of Evolution and the Scope of Meaning
Extraction
In Victorian studies, the term “extraction” helps us express the nineteenth-century emergence of a society fully reliant on finite underground materials and thereby describe the material and value relations at the heart of imperialism and at the heart of the provincial-metropole dynamic. Much of the recent attention to extraction in Victorian studies and beyond returns us to the sites of removal, to the extraction zones or sacrifice zones left be…
Expandability and expendability: Reading the Sacrifice Zone
The ‘sacrifice zone’ as a concept and a form pervades contemporary literature and literary studies. The sacrifice zone is premised on expendability, on the idea that one part can be expended for the good of another, and yet, in the waning days of the Great Acceleration, expendability has proven to be remarkably expandable and the zone of sacrifice seems only to grow. At its heart, the sacrifice zone is a relational concept: it names a relation be…
Extraction Ecologies and the Literature of the Long Exhaustion
Extraction Ecologies and the Literature of the Long Exhaustion
The 1830s to the 1930s saw the rise of large-scale industrial mining in the British imperial world. This book examines how literature of this era reckoned with a new vision of civilization where humans are dependent on finite, nonrenewable stores of earthly resources, and traces how the threatening horizon of resource exhaustion worked its way into narrative form. Britain was the first nation to transition to industry based on fossil fuels, which…
Medical Perspectives on Human Trafficking in Adolescents: A Case-Based Guide
Drill, Baby, Drill: Extraction Ecologies, Open Temporalities, and Reproductive Futurity in the Provincial Realist Novel
The temporal structures of provincial realist novels set in extraction landscapes convey the new understanding of futurity that attended the nineteenth-century rise of an industrial system powered by a nonrenewable, diminishing stock of underground resources. Focusing on Joseph Conrad's Nostromo (1904), George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss (1860), and Fanny Mayne's Jane Rutherford; Or, the Miners' Strike (1853), this article demonstrates how thes…
Climate Change and Victorian Studies: Introduction
Climate Change and Victorian Studies: Introduction Elizabeth Carolyn Miller (bio) Frances Ferguson has memorably described "the sharp, sudden consciousness" of climate change as one that "comes upon us like the ominous tones of an intruder bent on murder when the babysitter picks up the telephone receiver in a horror film: 'I'm in the house'" (33). There is no refuge from this stranger within, nor from the feelings of panic his phone call incites…
Ecology
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Jesse Oak Taylor, The Sky of Our Manufacture: The London Fog in British Fiction from Dickens to Woolf
Going Public: The Art of Participatory Practice
As researchers are increasingly taking their research from the campus to the public arena, what are the ethics of, and expectations for, social impact? Going Public responds to the urgent need to expand current thinking on what it means to co-create, to actively involve the public in research, and to reconceptualize research for public consumption. Drawing on conversations with over thirty practitioners across multiple cultures and disciplines, t…
Dendrography and Ecological Realism
The term dendrography here describes a form of ecological realism that strives to inhabit the scale and perspective of the arboreal. While a tree embodies bioregional rootedness, it also reaches up into the atmosphere, often obtaining a height and distance from the earth that exceeds the scale and duration of the human. Dendrography thus attempts to move away from the individuated human life that is primary in most nineteenth-century realisms. Th…
Twilight of the Idylls: Wilde, Tennyson, and Fin-De-Siècle Anti-Idealism
In the climactic finale to the first act of Oscar Wilde's 1895 play An Ideal Husband , Gertrude Chiltern convinces her husband, a Member of Parliament, not to support the construction of a boondoggle Argentinean canal. Gertrude, not her husband, is the ostensibly moral character here, since the canal's only purpose is to create wealth for its stockholders, but the language she uses in this impassioned speech quotes Guinevere, the contrite fallen …
Slow Print: Literary Radicalism and Late Victorian Print Culture
This book explores the literary culture of Britain's radical press from 1880 to 1910, a time that saw a flourishing of radical political activity as well as the emergence of a mass print industry. While Enlightenment radicals and their heirs had seen free print as an agent of revolutionary transformation, socialist, anarchist and other radicals of this later period suspected that a mass public could not exist outside the capitalist system. In res…
Slow Print: Literary Radicalism and Late Victorian Print Culture
Literature and the Late‐Victorian Radical Press
Amidst a larger surge in the number of books and periodicals published in late‐nineteenth‐century Britain, a corresponding surge occurred in the radical press. The counter‐cultural press that emerged at the fin de siècle sought to define itself in opposition to commercial print and the capitalist press and was deeply antagonistic to existing political, economic, and print publishing structures. Literature flourished across this counter‐public pri…
Framed: The New Woman Criminal in British Culture at the Fin de Siecle
FRAMED increasing mass of sensational literature which appears daily is a serious symptom of mental debility in the country at large.The cause of the demand for this ‹ction is not far to seek.It lies in the nerve-shattering conditions of modern life; in the ceaseless strain and sorrow which must be escaped from somehow . . . in the jaded state of the mind which craves a stimulus" (190). 2 Here, in echo of earlier reactions against sensation ‹ctio…
Shrewd Women of Business”: Madame Rachel, Victorian Consumerism, and L. T. Meade's the Sorceress of the Strand
S TANLEY F ISH RECENTLY IDENTIFIED the intersection between crime and religion as a hot topic, a trend that he gauged by paying attention to a popular television show: “ Law and Order ...from its beginning...has had its plots follow the headlines. Only if the tension between commitment to the rule of law and commitment to one's ethnic or religious affiliation was, so to speak, in the news would a television writer put it at the heart of a story.”…
Trouble With She-Dicks: Private Eyes and Public Women in the Adventures of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective
C. L. ( CATHERINE LOUISA ) PIRKIS ' S “The Murder at Troyte's Hill,” second in her series of stories about Detective Loveday Brooke, begins with Brooke's boss debriefing her on a case: “Griffiths, of the Newcastle Constabulary, has the case in hand.... Those Newcastle men are keen-witted, shrewd fellows, and very jealous of outside interference. They only sent to me under protest, as it were, because they wanted your sharp wits at work inside the…
Prints and printmaking
Dendrography and Ecological Realism
The term dendrography here describes a form of ecological realism that strives to inhabit the scale and perspective of the arboreal. While a tree embodies bioregional rootedness, it also reaches up into the atmosphere, often obtaining a height and distance from the earth that exceeds the scale and duration of the human. Dendrography thus attempts to move away from the individuated human life that is primary in most nineteenth-century realisms. Th…
Framed: The New Woman Criminal in British Culture at the Fin de Siecle
FRAMED increasing mass of sensational literature which appears daily is a serious symptom of mental debility in the country at large.The cause of the demand for this ‹ction is not far to seek.It lies in the nerve-shattering conditions of modern life; in the ceaseless strain and sorrow which must be escaped from somehow . . . in the jaded state of the mind which craves a stimulus" (190). 2 Here, in echo of earlier reactions against sensation ‹ctio…
Extraction Ecologies and the Literature of the Long Exhaustion
The 1830s to the 1930s saw the rise of large-scale industrial mining in the British imperial world. This book examines how literature of this era reckoned with a new vision of civilization where humans are dependent on finite, nonrenewable stores of earthly resources, and traces how the threatening horizon of resource exhaustion worked its way into narrative form. Britain was the first nation to transition to industry based on fossil fuels, which…
Ecology
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Expandability and expendability: Reading the Sacrifice Zone
The ‘sacrifice zone’ as a concept and a form pervades contemporary literature and literary studies. The sacrifice zone is premised on expendability, on the idea that one part can be expended for the good of another, and yet, in the waning days of the Great Acceleration, expendability has proven to be remarkably expandable and the zone of sacrifice seems only to grow. At its heart, the sacrifice zone is a relational concept: it names a relation be…
Going Public: The Art of Participatory Practice
As researchers are increasingly taking their research from the campus to the public arena, what are the ethics of, and expectations for, social impact? Going Public responds to the urgent need to expand current thinking on what it means to co-create, to actively involve the public in research, and to reconceptualize research for public consumption. Drawing on conversations with over thirty practitioners across multiple cultures and disciplines, t…
Literature and the Late‐Victorian Radical Press
Amidst a larger surge in the number of books and periodicals published in late‐nineteenth‐century Britain, a corresponding surge occurred in the radical press. The counter‐cultural press that emerged at the fin de siècle sought to define itself in opposition to commercial print and the capitalist press and was deeply antagonistic to existing political, economic, and print publishing structures. Literature flourished across this counter‐public pri…
Prints and printmaking
Trouble With She-Dicks: Private Eyes and Public Women in the Adventures of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective
C. L. ( CATHERINE LOUISA ) PIRKIS ' S “The Murder at Troyte's Hill,” second in her series of stories about Detective Loveday Brooke, begins with Brooke's boss debriefing her on a case: “Griffiths, of the Newcastle Constabulary, has the case in hand.... Those Newcastle men are keen-witted, shrewd fellows, and very jealous of outside interference. They only sent to me under protest, as it were, because they wanted your sharp wits at work inside the…
Shrewd Women of Business”: Madame Rachel, Victorian Consumerism, and L. T. Meade's the Sorceress of the Strand
S TANLEY F ISH RECENTLY IDENTIFIED the intersection between crime and religion as a hot topic, a trend that he gauged by paying attention to a popular television show: “ Law and Order ...from its beginning...has had its plots follow the headlines. Only if the tension between commitment to the rule of law and commitment to one's ethnic or religious affiliation was, so to speak, in the news would a television writer put it at the heart of a story.”…
Framed: The New Woman Criminal in British Culture at the Fin de Siecle
FRAMED increasing mass of sensational literature which appears daily is a serious symptom of mental debility in the country at large.The cause of the demand for this ‹ction is not far to seek.It lies in the nerve-shattering conditions of modern life; in the ceaseless strain and sorrow which must be escaped from somehow . . . in the jaded state of the mind which craves a stimulus" (190). 2 Here, in echo of earlier reactions against sensation ‹ctio…
Literature and the Late‐Victorian Radical Press
Amidst a larger surge in the number of books and periodicals published in late‐nineteenth‐century Britain, a corresponding surge occurred in the radical press. The counter‐cultural press that emerged at the fin de siècle sought to define itself in opposition to commercial print and the capitalist press and was deeply antagonistic to existing political, economic, and print publishing structures. Literature flourished across this counter‐public pri…
Slow Print: Literary Radicalism and Late Victorian Print Culture
This book explores the literary culture of Britain's radical press from 1880 to 1910, a time that saw a flourishing of radical political activity as well as the emergence of a mass print industry. While Enlightenment radicals and their heirs had seen free print as an agent of revolutionary transformation, socialist, anarchist and other radicals of this later period suspected that a mass public could not exist outside the capitalist system. In res…
Slow Print: Literary Radicalism and Late Victorian Print Culture
Twilight of the Idylls: Wilde, Tennyson, and Fin-De-Siècle Anti-Idealism
In the climactic finale to the first act of Oscar Wilde's 1895 play An Ideal Husband , Gertrude Chiltern convinces her husband, a Member of Parliament, not to support the construction of a boondoggle Argentinean canal. Gertrude, not her husband, is the ostensibly moral character here, since the canal's only purpose is to create wealth for its stockholders, but the language she uses in this impassioned speech quotes Guinevere, the contrite fallen …
Dendrography and Ecological Realism
The term dendrography here describes a form of ecological realism that strives to inhabit the scale and perspective of the arboreal. While a tree embodies bioregional rootedness, it also reaches up into the atmosphere, often obtaining a height and distance from the earth that exceeds the scale and duration of the human. Dendrography thus attempts to move away from the individuated human life that is primary in most nineteenth-century realisms. Th…
Jesse Oak Taylor, The Sky of Our Manufacture: The London Fog in British Fiction from Dickens to Woolf
Going Public: The Art of Participatory Practice
As researchers are increasingly taking their research from the campus to the public arena, what are the ethics of, and expectations for, social impact? Going Public responds to the urgent need to expand current thinking on what it means to co-create, to actively involve the public in research, and to reconceptualize research for public consumption. Drawing on conversations with over thirty practitioners across multiple cultures and disciplines, t…
Climate Change and Victorian Studies: Introduction
Climate Change and Victorian Studies: Introduction Elizabeth Carolyn Miller (bio) Frances Ferguson has memorably described "the sharp, sudden consciousness" of climate change as one that "comes upon us like the ominous tones of an intruder bent on murder when the babysitter picks up the telephone receiver in a horror film: 'I'm in the house'" (33). There is no refuge from this stranger within, nor from the feelings of panic his phone call incites…
Ecology
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Medical Perspectives on Human Trafficking in Adolescents: A Case-Based Guide
Drill, Baby, Drill: Extraction Ecologies, Open Temporalities, and Reproductive Futurity in the Provincial Realist Novel
The temporal structures of provincial realist novels set in extraction landscapes convey the new understanding of futurity that attended the nineteenth-century rise of an industrial system powered by a nonrenewable, diminishing stock of underground resources. Focusing on Joseph Conrad's Nostromo (1904), George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss (1860), and Fanny Mayne's Jane Rutherford; Or, the Miners' Strike (1853), this article demonstrates how thes…
Extraction Ecologies and the Literature of the Long Exhaustion
Extraction Ecologies and the Literature of the Long Exhaustion
The 1830s to the 1930s saw the rise of large-scale industrial mining in the British imperial world. This book examines how literature of this era reckoned with a new vision of civilization where humans are dependent on finite, nonrenewable stores of earthly resources, and traces how the threatening horizon of resource exhaustion worked its way into narrative form. Britain was the first nation to transition to industry based on fossil fuels, which…
Extraction
In Victorian studies, the term “extraction” helps us express the nineteenth-century emergence of a society fully reliant on finite underground materials and thereby describe the material and value relations at the heart of imperialism and at the heart of the provincial-metropole dynamic. Much of the recent attention to extraction in Victorian studies and beyond returns us to the sites of removal, to the extraction zones or sacrifice zones left be…
Expandability and expendability: Reading the Sacrifice Zone
The ‘sacrifice zone’ as a concept and a form pervades contemporary literature and literary studies. The sacrifice zone is premised on expendability, on the idea that one part can be expended for the good of another, and yet, in the waning days of the Great Acceleration, expendability has proven to be remarkably expandable and the zone of sacrifice seems only to grow. At its heart, the sacrifice zone is a relational concept: it names a relation be…
The Stepping Stones of Empire”: Conrad, Coal, and Oceanic Infrastructure
The political geography of empire transformed with the Victorian rise of steam power and its infrastructure, especially with the emerging dominance of steam as the primary means of transoceanic travel and shipping. Oceanic infrastructure was a new feature of the British Empire especially in the period after 1860, when steamships were increasingly replacing sailing ships and when the material exigencies of fueling and refueling required the instal…
The Machines of Evolution and the Scope of Meaning
Commodities and Literature
Global commodities, from tea and sugar to coal and oil, have had an enduring presence in literary texts. Commodity cultures have also shaped literary ones, from the early influence of the literary coffeehouse to the serial novels facilitated by print's own emergence as a mass commodity. This book offers an accessible overview of the many intersections between literature and commodities. Tracing the stories of goods as diverse as coffee, rum, opiu…
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