Jesse Oak Taylor is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Washington and the coauthor, with Daniel C. Taylor and Carl E. Taylor, of Empowerment on an Unstable Planet: From Seeds of Human Energy to a Scale of Global Change.

Taylor’s book has an astonishing breadth of reference, from Punch to scientific papers to canonical literature to children’s stories. The richness of nineteenth-century literature and society discussed here is tremendous, and the readings are wonderfully nuanced and illuminating. One of the most impressive books of ecocriticism I’ve read to date."" — Greg Garrard, University of British Columbia, editor of The Oxford Handbook of Ecocriticism""Taylor’s masterful book vastly extends the scope of ecocriticism. Through deft analyses of Victorian and early modern texts, he proposes changes to our understanding of narrative and its relation to the ‘natural world. His theoretical command and textual virtuosity produce a vibrant and compelling argument about how climate constructs narrative and about how readers and writers alike, construct climate. This is a must read.""— Karen S. Chase Levenson, University of Virginia. Author of The Victorians and Old Age

Jesse Oak Taylor is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Washington and the coauthor, with Daniel C. Taylor and Carl E. Taylor, of Empowerment on an Unstable Planet: From Seeds of Human Energy to a Scale of Global Change.

Taylor’s book has an astonishing breadth of reference, from Punch to scientific papers to canonical literature to children’s stories. The richness of nineteenth-century literature and society discussed here is tremendous, and the readings are wonderfully nuanced and illuminating. One of the most impressive books of ecocriticism I’ve read to date."" — Greg Garrard, University of British Columbia, editor of The Oxford Handbook of Ecocriticism""Taylor’s masterful book vastly extends the scope of ecocriticism. Through deft analyses of Victorian and early modern texts, he proposes changes to our understanding of narrative and its relation to the ‘natural world. His theoretical command and textual virtuosity produce a vibrant and compelling argument about how climate constructs narrative and about how readers and writers alike, construct climate. This is a must read.""— Karen S. Chase Levenson, University of Virginia. Author of The Victorians and Old Age

Jesse Oak Taylor is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Washington and the coauthor, with Daniel C. Taylor and Carl E. Taylor, of Empowerment on an Unstable Planet: From Seeds of Human Energy to a Scale of Global Change.

Taylor’s book has an astonishing breadth of reference, from Punch to scientific papers to canonical literature to children’s stories. The richness of nineteenth-century literature and society discussed here is tremendous, and the readings are wonderfully nuanced and illuminating. One of the most impressive books of ecocriticism I’ve read to date."" — Greg Garrard, University of British Columbia, editor of The Oxford Handbook of Ecocriticism""Taylor’s masterful book vastly extends the scope of ecocriticism. Through deft analyses of Victorian and early modern texts, he proposes changes to our understanding of narrative and its relation to the ‘natural world. His theoretical command and textual virtuosity produce a vibrant and compelling argument about how climate constructs narrative and about how readers and writers alike, construct climate. This is a must read.""— Karen S. Chase Levenson, University of Virginia. Author of The Victorians and Old Age