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Alice Meynell and the Politics of an Image: “The Climate of Smoke”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 January 2024

Isobel Armstrong Open the ORCID record for Isobel Armstrong [Opens in a new window]
Isobel Armstrong*
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Abstract

The collaboration of William Hyde and Alice Meynell in London Impressions (1898) led to Hyde's photogravure image, “Utilitarian London,” which is a direct critique of Turner's Rain, Steam and Speed (1844), and to a companion essay by Meynell, “The Climate of Smoke,” that is an ecological poetics exploring the deep harms of pollution.

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Victorian Literature and Culture , Volume 51 , Special Issue 4: Victorianist Activism: Past, Present, and Future , Winter 2023 , pp. 605 - 611
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2024. Published by Cambridge University Press

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Footnotes

I thank MA students of the Bread Loaf School of English (2022) for discussions of Meynell's essay.

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