Action Without Hope

Book • 2025
In 'Action Without Hope', Nathan K. Hensley explores how Victorian authors grappled with the anxieties and despair of ongoing climate disaster through their literature.

The book examines the works of authors such as George Eliot, Emily Brontë, H.G.

Wells, Lewis Carroll, and Christina Rossetti.

It analyzes their aesthetic strategies in addressing the challenges of environmental and social upheaval.

Hensley delves into the ways these authors portrayed the impact of industrialization and resource extraction on society and the human psyche.

The book seeks to uncover lessons from the Victorian era that may be relevant to contemporary environmental concerns.

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