Climate Crisis and the 21st-Century British Novel

ISBN-13: 9781474271127 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 192 str.

Astrid Bracke; Greg Garrard; Richard Kerridge

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In recent decades, the challenge of rapid climate change has forced us to rethink traditional attitudes to nature. This book is the first study to chart these changing attitudes in 21st-century British fiction. Climate Crisis and the 21st-Century British Novel examines the ways in which today's literature engages with four different environmental narratives: the pastoral, the urban, the polar and climate change. Bringing ecocriticism into dialogue with a new body of contemporary writing, Astrid Bracke explores a wide range of texts, from Zadie Smith's N/W through Ian McEwan's Solar and David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas to the work of a new generation of novelists such as Melissa Harrison and Ross Raisin. Through the work of these writers, this book shows how post-millennial fictions provide the imaginative space to rethink relationships between the human and the natural world.