Environmental Criticism for the Twenty-First Century

ISBN-13: 9780415886307 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 310 str.

Stephanie LeMenager; Teresa Shewry; Ken Hiltner

Opis

This title showcases the expansion of environmental criticism, which is actively transforming three areas in contemporary literary and cultural studies: history, scale, and science. It offers proof that cultural criticism is itself ecologically resilient, evolving to meet the challenges of 21st-century environmental crises.

Spis treści

Introduction  Section 1: Science  1. The Mesh  2. Posthuman/Postnatural: Ecocriticism and the Sublime in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein  3. Revisiting the Virtuoso: Natural History Collectors and Their Passionate Engagement with Nature  4. Chimerical Figurations at the Monstrous Edges of Species  5. The City Refigured: Environmental Vision in a Transgenic Age  Section 2: History  6. Ecopoetics and the Origins of English Literature  7. Amerindian Eden: the Divine Weekes of Du Bartas  8. Erasure by U.S. Legislation: Ruiz de Burton’s Nineteenth Century Novels and the Lost Archive of Mexican American Environmental Knowledge  9. Shifting the Center: A Tradition of Environmental Literary Discourse from Africa  10. Ecomelancholia: Slavery, War and Black Ecological Imaginings  Section 3: Scale  11. Home Again: Peak Oil, Climate Change, and the Aesthetics of Transition  12. Reclaiming Nimby: Nuclear Waste, Jim Day, and the Rhetoric of Local Resistance  13. Imagining a Chinese Eco-City  14. "No Debt Outstanding": The Postcolonial Politics of Local Food  15. Pathways to the Sea: Involvement and the Commons in Works by Ralph Hotere, Cilla McQueen, Hone Tuwhare, and Ian Wedde.  Afterword: An Interview with Elaine Scarry

O autorze

Ken Hiltner is an Associate Professor at University of California, Santa Barbara.

Stephanie LeMenager is Associate Professor at UC-Santa Barbara.

Teresa Shewry is Assistant Professor of Literature and Environment at University of California, Santa Barbara.