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This special collection addresses the environmental legacies of nineteenth-century infrastructures through historical, cultural and literary texts that register their cultural entanglements. By exploring the large-scale infrastructural transformation that took place during the nineteenth-century, we seek to understand how infrastructures of the past condition our sense of political, social and ecological possibility in the future. Revisiting the infrastructural legacies of the nineteenth century and the paths they laid down is central to gaining a better understanding of the multivalent effects of infrastructures – socially, environmentally, culturally – and envisioning alternative pathways toward a sustainable planetary future.

Banner image: “The Black Country” H. Warren (c.1869), https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co64776/the-black-country (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Licence).

Editors: Julia Ditter (Guest Editor), Irmtraud Huber (Guest Editor)


Victorian Infrastructures and their Environmental Legacies

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