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Author:

Neely, Michelle C., author.

Title:

Against sustainability : reading nineteenth-century America in the age of climate crisis / Michelle C. Neely.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Fordham University Press,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

229 pages ; 23 cm

Subject:

1800-2099
American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
Environmentalism in literature.
Human ecology in literature.
Nature--Effect of human beings on--United States.
American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
American literature--21st century--History and criticism.
American literature.
Environmentalism in literature.
Human ecology in literature.
Nature--Effect of human beings on.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-220) and index.

Contents:

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.

Summary:

"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 sustainability, recycling, frugality, preservation, radical pet keeping, zero waste, and utopianism"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

082328820X
9780823288205
0823288226
9780823288229

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1117930315

LCCN:

2020000622

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)