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How literature of the British imperial world contended with the social and environmental consequences of industrial mining. The 1830s to the 1930s saw the rise of large-scale industrial mining in the British imperial world. Elizabeth Carolyn Miller examines how literature of this era reckoned with a new vision of civilization where humans are dependent on finite, nonrenewable stores of earthly resources, and traces how the threatening horizon of resource exhaustion worked its way into narrative form.Britain was the first nation to transition to industry based on fossil fuels, which put its novelists and other writers in the remarkable position of mediating the emergence of extraction-based life. Miller looks at works like Hard Times, The Mill on the Floss, and Sons and Lovers, showing how the provincial realist novel's longstanding reliance on marriage and inheritance plots transforms against the backdrop of exhaustion to withhold the promise of reproductive futurity. She explores how adventure stories like Treasure Island and Heart of Darkness reorient fictional space toward the resource frontier. And she shows how utopian and fantasy works like "Sultana's Dream," The Time Machine, and The Hobbit offer imaginative ways of envisioning energy beyond extractivism.This illuminating book reveals how an era marked by violent mineral resource rushes gave rise to literary forms and genres that extend extractivism as a mode of environmental understanding

Industrialization in literature. --- Mines and mineral resources in literature. --- English fiction --- History and criticism. --- Mines and mineral resources in literature --- English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism --- English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism --- Industrialization in literature --- Allan Quatermain. --- Arthur Rimbaud. --- Author. --- Barbarism (linguistics). --- Bildungsroman. --- Bloemfontein. --- Boiler. --- Book review. --- British Coal. --- Capitalism. --- Case study. --- Climate change. --- Coal mining. --- Coal. --- Commodity. --- Consolidated Mines. --- Crainquebille. --- D. H. Lawrence. --- Death drive. --- Dividend. --- DuPont. --- Ecocriticism. --- Ecological imperialism. --- Ecology. --- Energy crisis. --- Environmental politics. --- Environmentalism. --- Exhaustion. --- Externality. --- Fertilizer. --- Filth (novel). --- Finance capitalism. --- Fossil fuel. --- Fuel. --- Genre. --- Geologist. --- Geopolitics. --- George Eliot. --- H. G. Wells. --- H. Rider Haggard. --- Hartley Colliery disaster. --- Historical fiction. --- Historicism. --- Imagines (work by Philostratus). --- Imperialism. --- Inception. --- Industrial ecology. --- Industrial society. --- International Commission on Stratigraphy. --- Joseph Conrad. --- King Solomon's Mines. --- Labor theory of value. --- Latin America. --- Lecture. --- Literary realism. --- Literature. --- Lord Jim. --- Marriage plot. --- Medieval literature. --- Memoir. --- Meta-analysis. --- Metallurgy. --- Mineral Revolution. --- Mining (military). --- Mining accident. --- Mining. --- Moidore. --- Montezuma's Daughter. --- Montezuma's treasure. --- Narrative. --- National Policy. --- News from Nowhere. --- Nostromo. --- Ontology. --- Ornithology. --- Ownership (psychology). --- Patriarchy. --- Poetry. --- Slavery. --- Smelting. --- Sons and Lovers. --- Speculative fiction. --- Steam engine. --- Subject (philosophy). --- Subsurface (software). --- Sultana's Dream. --- Surplus value. --- The Bottoms (novel). --- The Coal Question. --- The Mining Journal (trade magazine). --- The Mining Journal. --- Thomas Newcomen. --- Timescape. --- Tono-Bungay. --- Torture chamber. --- V. --- Vril. --- Wealth. --- World War I. --- Worldbuilding.