Agrotopias : An American Literary History of Sustainability /

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"In this book, Abby L. Goode reveals the foundations of American environmentalism and its enduring connections to racism, eugenics, and agrarian ideals. Throughout the nineteenth century, writers as diverse as Martin Delany, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and Walt Whitman worried about unsustainable...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Goode, Abby L. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2022]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Sustainable agriculture.
Racism in literature.
Eugenics in literature.
Environmentalism in literature.
Agriculture in literature.
Sustainable agriculture > United States > History.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • No rural bowl of milk: unsustainability and the demographic agrarian ideal
  • Gothic fertility and other tropical nightmares: Jefferson, Crevecoeur, Sansay
  • African agrotopias: sustaining Black nationalism beyond U.S. borders
  • Sustainable sprawl: Whitman's eugenic agrarianism
  • Asexual sustainability in "Herland"
  • Agrotopian legacies.

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