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02483aam a2200397 i 4500 001 6C803B6674A711EA8EBE956E97128E48 003 SILO 005 20200402010032 008 190814t20202020enka b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2019028548 020 $a 1108477917 020 $a 9781108477918 035 $a (OCoLC)1113412323 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d YDX $d OCLCF $d UKMGB $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PR478.M6 $b K35 2020 082 00 $a 820.9/112 $2 23 100 1 $a Kalaidjian, Andrew $e author. 245 10 $a Exhausted ecologies : $b modernism and environmental recovery / $c Andrew Kalaidjian. 246 30 $a Modernism and environmental recovery 264 1 $a Cambridge, United Kingdom ; $b Cambridge University Press, $c 2020. 300 $a ix, 234 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: Places of Rest -- I. Nature's Reserves: Rural Exhaustion, Inertia, and Generative Aesthetics -- II. Urban Environs: James Joyce and the Politics of Shared Atmosphere -- III. Waste Lands: Dark Pastoral in T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, and Djuna Barnes -- IV. Uprooting Empire: Jean Rhys and Unrest in Imperial Centers -- V. Decolonizing Ecology: Chinua Achebe's New Forms of Unease -- Conclusion: The Limits of Modernist Regeneration. 520 $a "Surveying the state of literature in the 1930s, E. M. Forster is nostalgic for the relative peace of the Edwardian England of his youth. He paints a picture of the modern world as one without rest, fixity, or security. This characterization of modernity is a common one. Always on the move, ever-expanding, always innovating, the modernist knows no bounds. Forster admits that restlessness gives the modern era its identity, but he frankly finds such a world exhausting"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Modernism (Literature) 650 0 $a English literature $y 20th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a American literature $y 20th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Civilization, Modern, in literature. 650 0 $a Environment in literature. 650 0 $a Ecocriticism. 776 08 $i Online version: $a Kalaidjian, Andrew, 1984- $t Exhausted ecologies $b First. $d New York : Cambridge university press, 2019. $z 9781108775212 $w (DLC) 2019028549 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20200505014713.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=6C803B6674A711EA8EBE956E97128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search