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03398aam a22004218i 4500 001 E0EA0770047611EB89AE83802EECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20201002011536 008 200717s2020 msu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2020022855 020 $a 1496830407 020 $a 9781496830401 020 $a 1496830415 020 $a 9781496830418 035 $a (OCoLC)1154101645 040 $a MsSM/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a PN98 E36 L36 2020 100 1 $a Lambert, Matthew M. $e author. 245 14 $a The green depression : $b American ecoliterature in the 1930s and 1940s / $c Matthew M. Lambert. 263 $a 2010 264 1 $a Jackson : $b University Press of Mississippi, $c 2020. 300 $a 199 pages cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: The last frontier -- Chapter 2: Back to the land -- Chapter 3: The postpastoral city -- Chapter 4: Futuramas and atom bombs -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. 520 $a "Dust storms. Flooding. The fear of nuclear fallout. While literary critics associate authors of the 1930s and '40s with leftist political and economic thought, they often ignore concern in the period's literary and cultural works with major environmental crises. To fill this gap in scholarship, author Matthew M. Lambert argues that depression-era authors contributed to the development of modern environmentalist thought in a variety of ways. Writers of the time provided a better understanding of the devastating effects that humans can have on the environment. They also depicted the ecological and cultural value of nonhuman nature, including animal "predators" and "pests." Finally, they laid the groundwork for "environmental justice" by focusing on the social effects of environmental exploitation. To show the reach of environmentalist thought during the period, the first three chapters of The Green Depression: American Ecoliterature in the 1930s and 1940s focus on different geographical landscapes, including the wild, rural, and urban. The fourth and final chapter shifts to debates over the social and environmental effects of technology during the period. In identifying modern environmental ideas and concerns in American literary and cultural works of the 1930s and '40s, The Green Depression highlights the importance of depression-era literature in understanding the development of environmentalist thought over the twentieth century. This book also builds upon a growing body of scholarship in ecocriticism that describes the unique contributions African American and other nonwhite authors have made to the environmental justice movement and to our understanding of the natural world"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Ecocriticism. 650 0 $a Ecocriticism in literature. 650 0 $a Ecology in literature. 650 0 $a Environmental justice in literature. 650 0 $a Nature in literature. 776 08 $i Online version: $a Lambert, Matthew M., $t The green depression $d Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2020. $z 9781496830425 $w (DLC) 2020022856 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117025706.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20210903015724.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=E0EA0770047611EB89AE83802EECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search