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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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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Neely, Michelle C. (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New York : Fordham University Press, [2020]
Édition:First edition.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.