Taylor 2016
From Commonplace Book
Taylor, Jesse Oak. The Sky of Our Manufacture: the London Fog in British Fiction from Dickens to Woolf. Virginia: UP, 2016. Print.
Intro
- 5: Nature in the Anthroposcene exists in a state of perpetual withdrawal, a state of affairs that I have taken to calling "abnatural". The prefix ab- means both "away from" and "derived from." Thus, "abnatural" speaks to both nature's absence and its uncanny persistence.... Abnatural characterizes those moments in which nature appears other to itself, beside or outside itself.
