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Against Sustainability : Reading Nineteenth-Century America in the Age of Climate Crisis /
Against Sustainability responds to contemporary environmental crisis not by seeking the origins of U.S. environmental problems, but by returning to the nineteenth-century literature and cultural contexts that gave rise to many of our most familiar environmental solutions. Chapters explore sustainabi...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
[2020]
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| Edición: | First edition. |
| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: The Unlikely Environmentalisms of Nineteenth-Century American Literature
- 1. Recycling Fantasies: Whitman, Clifton, and the Dream of Compost
- 2. Joyful Frugality: Thoreau, Dickinson, and the Pleasures of Not Consuming
- 3. The Problem with Preservation: Aesthetics and Sanctuary in Catlin, Parkman, Erdrich, Melville, and Byatt
- 4. Radical Pet Keeping: Crafts, Wilson, and Living with Others in the Anthropocene
- Coda. Embracing Green Temporalities: Indigenous Sustainabilities, Anglo-American Utopias.