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Author:

Johns-Putra, Adeline, 1973- author.

Title:

Climate change and the contemporary novel / Adeline Johns-Putra, University of Surrey.

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

xi, 186 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

Climatic changes in literature.
American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
American fiction--21st century--History and criticism.
English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
English fiction--21st century--History and criticism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction -- The ethics of posterity and the climate change novel -- The limits of parental care ethics: Cormac McCarthy's The road and Maggie Gee's The ice people -- Overpopulation and motherhood environmentalism: Edan Lepucki's California and Liz Jensen's The road -- Identity, ethical agency, and radical posterity: Jeanette Winterson's The stone -- Gods and Sarah Hall's The Carhullan army -- Science, utopianism, and ecocentric posterity: Kim Stanley Robinson's 'Science in the capital' and Barbara Kingsolver's Flight behaviour -- Conclusion: the sense of no ending.

ISBN:

1108427375
9781108427371

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1040613971

LCCN:

2018024050

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)