Richard Jefferies, After London; or Wild England Jefferies RichardPaperback
Richard Jefferies, After London; or Wild England Jefferies RichardPaperback A scholarly edition of a significant and exciting late Victorian science fiction novelRichard Jefferies' After London is…
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Richard Jefferies, After London; or Wild England Jefferies RichardPaperback
A scholarly edition of a significant and exciting late Victorian science fiction novelRichard Jefferies' After London is uncanny and intriguing, an adventure story, quest romance, dystopia, and Darwinian novel rolled into one, but also a pioneering work of Victorian science fiction. Of its time but also distinctively modern, After London can, in its uneasy expression of Victorian and post-Victorian anxieties about industrial development, urbanisation, natural resources, and climate, be regarded as one of the first novels of the Anthropocene.This new critical edition Imagining a mysterious natural catastrophe that plunges its people into a barbaric future, Jefferies' remarkable novel drowns and destroys London and depicts a challenging 'Wild England' dominated by nature and filled with evolved animals and devolved humans.