Extraction ecologies and the literature of the long exhaustion

Cover

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1. Drill, Baby, Drill: Extraction Ecologies, Futurity, and the Provincial Realist Novel

"Mine-Ridden": Nostromo

"The Red Deeps, Where the Buried Joy Seemed Still to Hover": The Mill on the Floss

"To Teem with Life": Jane Rutherford: or, The Miners' Strike

"Country of the Old Pits": Hard Times

"The Habit of the Mine": Sons and Lovers

Chapter 2. Down and Out: Adventure Narrative, Extraction, and the Resource Frontier

"A Great Neighbourhood for Gold-Mines": Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands

"A Mine of Suggestion": Treasure Island

"The Secret Stores of the Empire": Montezuma's Daughter

"Trading, Hunting, Fighting, or Mining": King Solomon's Mines

"To Tear Treasure Out of the Bowels of the Land": Heart of Darkness

Chapter 3. Worldbuilding Meets Terraforming: Energy, Extraction, and Speculative Fiction

"Natural Energetic Agencies": The Coming Race

"We Do Not Fight for a Piece of Diamond": "Sultana's Dream"

"A Man from Another Planet": News from Nowhere

"Unpleasant Creatures from Below": The Time Machine

"Riddles in the Dark": The Hobbit

Conclusion

Notes

Works Cited

Index